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Journalists from the San Antonio Report maintain a dialogue on the publication’s annual CityFest fundraiser.
Fifteen staffers on the San Antonio Report walked off the job Wednesday after the nonprofit media group unexpectedly laid off its viewers editor.
The employees, who final week introduced plans to arrange because the San Antonio Report Union, will unconditionally return to work Thursday, a consultant informed the Present.
The laid-off editor, Sandra Santos, revealed her termination Wednesday in a publish on X, previously Twitter. Coworkers and others expressed frustration over the scenario of their responses to the tweet.
“After greater than 30 years of dodging the layoffs bullet, I used to be lastly taken out by the San Antonio Report,” Santos wrote. “It has been a helluva trip and I’ve met some very fantastic individuals alongside the best way. Onward to the subsequent chapter. And if you recognize of any openings, let me know!”
After greater than 30 years of dodging the layoffs bullet, I used to be lastly taken out right now by @SAReport. It’s been a helluva trip and I’ve met some very fantastic individuals alongside the best way. Onward to the subsequent chapter. And if you recognize of any openings, let me know! pic.twitter.com/XvsLUg7jL1
— Sandra Santos 🌊 (@sandrasantos) January 24, 2024
San Antonio Report schooling reporter Isaac Windes, a member of the fledgling union and a participant within the walkout, stated the nonprofit could have damaged the legislation when it terminated Santos.
“We’re within the vital interval inside two weeks of asking for voluntary recognition, in order that’s why we’re making an unfair labor observe submitting with the Nationwide Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and why we walked out right now in solidarity with our coworker,” Windes informed the Present.
San Antonio Report CEO and Writer Angie Mock did not reply to a request for remark by press time Wednesday afternoon.
Reporters, editors, enterprise staffers and photojournalists on the 12-year-old San Antonio Report revealed their plans to unionize in a Wednesday, Jan. 17, tweet. They gave administration till the next day to acknowledge the union.
Mock did not meet that deadline however informed the Present by way of e-mail that she “signaled a chance and want to work with the union as shortly as potential.”
Simply the identical, staff moved forward with submitting NLRB paperwork to carry an election, representatives stated.
Union member and San Antonio Report Senior Reporter Iris Dimmick stated Wednesday that administration warned workers in early January that layoffs had been imminent as a result of price range constraints. That was earlier than staff revealed their plans to arrange, she added.
Dimmick stated workers started discussing the concept of unionizing in 2022, including that July’s layoffs on the Texas Tribune upped the urgency.
Certainly, staff on the nonprofit Tribune on Wednesday introduced their very own intention to unionize, tweeting that they “stand in solidarity with our friends on the San Antonio Report.”
Right this moment we additionally stand in solidarity with our friends @SAReportUnion.
— Texas Tribune Guild (@texastribguild) January 24, 2024
Santos’ termination got here hours after the Los Angeles Occasions laid off 115 newsroom staff, many reportedly journalists of coloration.
“[Santos] was a member of our Girls of Colour Committee that we had on the Report,” science and utilities reporter Lindsey Carnett informed the Present. “It is arduous to see one other lady of coloration get laid off this week.”
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