It’s been well over a year since the EdSource Guild unionized, but we still don’t have a contract.

While management stalls, EdSource Guild members are living with the consequences. The cost of food, gas and housing keeps climbing, but we haven’t had a raise in years. We refuse to wait any longer. That’s why we’re preparing for a possible work stoppage in our fight for a fair contract.

The EdSource Guild needs your help now. I am raising funding to cover our entire unit in the event we have to conduct a work stoppage.

I am fundraising in case we need to strike. For one day of a strike to make each of us whole, we need about $4,000.

Every dollar counts — and it shows management that we have the community’s support.

“The Edsource Guild is not asking for anything extraordinary,” said Thomas Peele, EdSource’s Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and unit co-chair. “We simply want fair wages and working conditions, standard journalist protections, and policies about leaves, sick time and other matters that meet industry standards.”

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In solidarity and service,

Emma Gallegos, EdSource reporter and co-vice chair of the EdSource Guild.

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