LJW Guild

🌟HAPPY NEW YEAR🌟
Here's our workers' resolutions as we continue contract negotiations in 2022:
🏥affordable healthcare
💵fair wages for fair work
🗞️PROTECTING LOCAL NEWS!

If we succeed it will make a stronger LJWorld. What does a victory for news look like for you?

One of the major reasons our members chose to form a union was health care. Many people will know why that is the case, as health care has become a significant issue for just about everyone in the United States.

Health care can be expensive for our members, especially for those who wish to get coverage for themselves and their families. Despite this, our coming together as a union has provided an opportunity to change that reality.

Through the United Furniture Workers of America, a health care plan has been offered to our union that would cut our members’ monthly costs significantly. For instance, the total cost for the most expensive option the Furniture Workers’ plan offers our union would be about 20 percent cheaper than the total cost for the cheapest option provided by our current plan.

This would not only be a huge savings for our members but also possibly for Lawrence Journal-World. Another added bonus from the plan is that all of the employees of the Journal-World could participate in this plan. That means the managers who we are bargaining with and our coworkers in other units would be able to benefit from the more cost-affordable plan.

For the Journal-World to provide reliable news to the readers of Douglas County, our members need to be reliably healthy to do their jobs. We ask for the people of Douglas County to continue supporting us — whether that’s subscribing to the newspaper to support our work or sending words of encouragement to our members — as we fight for a fair contract that includes a better health care plan for everyone.

We at the LJW Guild want to thank you for your support. We also want to update you on our fight for recognition as a union and request your continued and vocal support.