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Right now CEO Deborah Clark and board members Richard Whitmore, Jim Boren, Robert Sheffield, Mary Jane Burke, William Eger, Sarah Menendez, Anne Stanton and Raquel Torres-Retana have the power to make us whole.

"This isn't greed. We're not asking for more. We are simply asking for the same amount. Getting to keep what we have should be the absolute bare minimum." — EdSource Data Journalist Daniel J. Willis

Our wages are lagging far behind inflation. Our union's wage proposal simply makes us whole after years of losing buying power. But management's proposal wouldn't even cover this year's inflation.

Our colleague Justin Allen says he hasn't been able to avoid substantial and increasing debt as a single parent who is also caring for aging parents. All we're asking for is a fair contract that keeps up with rising costs.

Under @edsource.org management’s proposal, most of us would get fewer than 18 weeks of severance if we are laid off for no fault of our own. After 38 years in the business, senior reporter Diana Lambert thinks that she – and her coworkers – deserve better.

“If we couldn’t get raises during bargaining, then we want it after bargaining. Right? That seems perfectly fair,” said Daniel J. Willis, EdSource data reporter. “That was rejected.”

Management has refused to grant us reasonable cost-of-living raises during nearly 18 months of bargaining, and now we’re fighting to make up the ground we’ve lost in an era of historic inflation.

“We’ve asked EdSource management to simply help us understand what kind of protections those vendors like Slack and Google have that can help us with the Shield Law,” said Thomas Peele, investigative reporter at EdSource. “We just get no response to those matters."

“When we rally around our demands, when we insist on a real say in the work that we pour ourselves into every day, that’s not selfish, that’s about the integrity of journalism itself.” — Annie Sciacca, president of the Pacific Media Workers Guild, speaking at EdSource Guild’s historic strike

EdSource Guild went on strike to protest management's unilateral cuts to our health benefits and refusal to negotiate. We've won real gains — but management still hasn't responded meaningfully to our proposals for legal protections for our investigative journalism or cost-of-living raises.

We return to the bargaining table today, more determined than ever to win the fair contract we deserve!

Dozens of union siblings and allies joined us in front of the EdSource office in Oakland and on Zoom. Supporters donated over $3,600 for our strike fund, more than 160 people signed our pledge not to cross the digital picket line, and some of our own coworkers refused to cross it in solidarity!

Thank you for standing with the EdSource Guild on May 14. Our Unfair Labor Practice Strike — the first in the Pacific Media Workers Guild unit since 1994 — was a direct response to management’s unilateral changes to our health benefits and refusal to negotiate. We couldn’t have done it without you.

By the way, please resume visiting EdSource. Great journalism by great people.

Our strike rally is complete! You can catch the VOD on Twitch until we get a clean version edited and ready on YouTube later. Thank you everyone who came, and if you didn't, you can and should still watch it. Thank you for your support!

Join our EdSource Guild members today at noon for a virtual rally as they strike today!

✊🏻 I AM ON STRIKE ✊🏻 Come to our rally at noon! It’s on Zoom if you want to interact or Twitch, YouTube, and IG Live if you just want to watch. Links in @edsourceguild.bsky.social’s bio. AND DO NOT CROSS OUR PICKET LINE I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH

✊I’m on strike!✊ Interested in supporting? Read the thread below and share 👇

🚨 STRIKE ALERT! 🚨 Do not visit EdSource today!

Good morning! We're on strike! ✊️ In case you missed our midnight announcement, EdSource Guild is on strike today! Please do not cross our picket line by going to EdSource's web site. Instead, please come to our noon rally at this link or streaming at the links in our bio. zoom.us/j/93464421760