Journalists at The Tacoma News Tribune, The Bellingham Herald, The Olympian, and The Tri-City Herald walked off the job for a one-day strike on Tuesday May 26th.
The demonstration was organized by the Washington State News Guild, a union of the previously-mentioned four newspapers, and coincided with a strike involving workers at The Idaho Statesman in Boise.
In an emailed statement the Pacific Northwest Newsguild said, “We're the ones chasing lawmakers down at our state capitol buildings. We're the ones listening to local business owners, attending court hearings to get the full story on crime and diving headfirst into why traffic is worse.
“Yet our corporate owners won't even send their decision-makers to the bargaining table to deny our reasonable requests for a living wage and AI protections.”
Asking people not to cross their “digital picket line” on Tuesday, the PNW Newsguild said, “Show McClatchy that you know you deserve reliable information, not AI slop. You want to know what's happening in your community, good or bad, and that's not possible if reporters can't afford to live where they cover.”
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