CQ Roll Call journalists fighting for a better future for our newsroom. Established 2024. Reach us at [email protected].
Washington, D.C.
Joined January 2024
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Two years ago today we started bargaining for our first contract.
In the time since, management has made a series of choices underscoring why it’s past time for a fair contract (thread🧵1/6:)
Today’s the day!! After months of hard work, we head to the bargaining table to start negotiating our first contract. We’re fired up and stand together as one. @WBNG32035 @newsguild
After bargaining just once a month for the last two years, management has agreed to meet with us more often.
We’re excited about this positive step forward as we continue to fight for a fair contract!✊
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Spotted in the newsroom this week: @sagaftra President @SeanAstin👀
Like us, Sean knows the importance of a union. Maybe @FiscalNote should support its own unionized employees, too.
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Our photographers are the best in the business, capturing the biggest moments of the day. Other outlets agree and regularly pay good money to use their photos.
@FiscalNote thinks they shouldn’t get a cent of the money they make the company every year.
FiscalNote will lay off our coworkers and drag out negotiations for almost two years, but even they recognize the quality work produced by CQ Roll Call’s journalists when they want to get subscribers. instagram.com/p/DaLFeD2lp1a/
When @FiscalNote illegally laid off four of our members this year, management gave them paltry severance and no health care past the end of the month.
But when management leaves, there’s money for two years of severance pay and 18 months of COBRA🤔
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Our members make a fraction of the six figure salaries that @FiscalNote executives make. The company has cried poor at every turn of negotiations, from overtime to increasing paid parental leave. Looks like they do have the money after all!
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We’re headed back to the bargaining table this afternoon!
Our newsroom that once numbered 300 now has fewer than 70 people. It’s past time for @FiscalNote to agree to a fair contract and stop gutting the newsroom.
The CQ Roll Call Guild is lunching out today for a fair contract.
After almost two years of bargaining, it’s time for @FiscalNote management to get serious and bargain with us and invest in its newsroom.
(1/5): Two summers ago we wrote our proposal for our first contract — the one we’re still bargaining over as management continues to drag their feet through negotiations with us.
Spotted on @FiscalNote’s Instagram today👀
If DC really runs on CQ, management should pay us salaries that keep up with our competitors, not illegally layoff our colleagues and stop decimating the newsroom.
We’ve filed an unfair labor practice charge against @FiscalNote for their handling of the layoffs of four of our members earlier this month.
We won’t stop fighting for a better future for our newsroom.
Solidarity with @propublicaguild ✊
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We’re grateful for all those who have given so far to help support our colleagues.
If you’re able, please consider donating. Our coworkers should be chasing stories, not figuring out how they’re going to pay their bills after being laid off by @FiscalNote last week.
Today, our already small and scrappy newsroom got even smaller.
CQ Roll Call owner @FiscalNote laid off four @CQRollCallGuild members after refusing to bargain over the cuts.
Please consider donating to help those impacted: gofundme.com/f/standing-with…
Today, @FiscalNote laid off four of our members after refusing to bargain with us over these cuts.
Please consider donating and sharing the link to support those who are impacted and can no longer rely on a regular paycheck for their basic life expenses:
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Back at the bargaining table today and management told us their idea of how our newsroom structure works is based off of the movie The Post.
Much love to our friends @PostGuild, but management should learn how the newsroom works before they make cuts with significant impacts.
Management told us yesterday that they want to do as little harm as possible to how the journalism gets done.
If they were serious about that, they’d know that laying people off isn’t the answer. It’s past time for @FiscalNote to #ownthejob and #supportthefamily.
(1/5): Today, the CQRC Guild will be entering decisional bargaining with management over the proposed layoffs of four of our unit members. Laying off our members without bargaining with the Guild is illegal and these layoffs never should have been attempted in the first place.