@vtdiggerguild.bsky.social
Representing journalists at VTDigger, a non-profit newsroom covering Vermont. Proud part of The NewsGuild-CWA.
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We demand VTDigger pay its journalists their fair share.
28.08.2025 16:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0We reject the premise that our journalists should be paid the least simply because the market permits it.
28.08.2025 16:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0VTDigger wants to continue paying us an unlivable wage. It wants to cut its contribution to our health care premiums. It wants to gut our employment protections. All as leadership compensation has ballooned and our own ranks continue to shrink.
28.08.2025 16:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Our VTDigger Guild members held a coordinate lunch-out today to demand that VTDigger management return to the bargaining table with a contract proposal that addresses unsustainable inequity and turnover at the organization.
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VTDIGGER GUILD LUNCH OUT
actionnetwork.org/letters/fair...
We took a collective lunch break today to protest @propublica.org management’s continued use of a flawed performance management system.
Just this morning, a member of our Bargaining Committee was fired as a result of this system.
Read more: www.propublicaguild.org/updates/we-d...
If you're passionate about our journalism, tell VTDigger's leadership! actionnetwork.org/letters/fair...
05.06.2025 22:02 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1June is here—and we're heading back to the bargaining table today! We'll be countering an economics proposal that management passed last month which many of our members called insulting. And we'll be following up with some heat in the coming days. So watch this space!!
02.06.2025 14:09 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Dear Steve and Robin, Since we unionized in 2023, we have worked hard to reach a contract that honors ProPublica's mission. In order to fulfill that vision, our values of fairness, transparency and accountability must apply not only to our reporting but also to our workplace. Our proposals have sought basic contractual rights that align with those values and exist at many other unionized newsrooms. Instead of working with us to codify those rights, you have struck through many of our proposals, called for broad carve outs and delayed discussion of key provisions such as protections against layoffs and overwork. Those tactics are not in line with the ProPublica you say you want to build. In recent months: ● You have refused to allow stewards in performance meetings that could lead to discipline. ● You have resisted attempts to reform our disciplinary system, rejecting a standard approach to just cause and measures to improve transparency and clarity. ● You rejected our proposal that would ensure our jobs will not be replaced by artificial intelligence. What we are seeking is simple: ProPublica management must uphold its values in its own workplace. We expect that your proposals going forward will reflect these shared values. Sincerely, ProPublica Guild
Today, we issued a letter — signed by 70% of our unit — to @sengelberg.bsky.social and @robinsparkman.bsky.social asking them to uphold ProPublica’s values of fairness, transparency and accountability at the bargaining table.
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Happy International Workers' Day!
This May Day, the VTDigger Guild is relaunching our socials in solidarity with our journalism industry colleagues and the wider labor movement. Keep up the fight.
