Colleagues,
Today is a historic day for the Los Angeles Times. It's time to make your mark. This is our closing argument.
For 136 years — through wars, through earthquakes, through riots — this newsroom has never had a union.
Our longtime owners, the Chandlers, prided themselves on keeping out unions by treating their employees well.
We all know what happened next. The Chandlers left. They were replaced by a series of incompetent owners. Sam Zell drove us into bankruptcy. Management only knew how to do one thing: cut staff and benefits.
We had no way to speak up for ourselves. We had no voice to demand modest raises to keep up with inflation. We had no leverage to stop the company from stripping away our paid time off.
We did not have a union. And we have paid the price.
No longer.
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