Southern California News Group Guild members have voted to approve their first contract, with 93% voting in favor of ratification. The agreement comes on the heels of the Guild’s strike authorization vote in September.

Journalists across 11 Southern California newsrooms have voted by a landslide in favor of a strike after more than two years of bargaining.

The SCNG Guild represents about 120 non-management editorial employees — a supermajority of whom have pledged to participate in the one-day work stoppage to protest management’s unfair labor practices and delays in bargaining.

We unionized because we believe in local news. We’re walking out for the same reason.

Journalists in the SCNG Guild are ready to bargain for a contract that increases wages, protects its workers and provides better benefits.

“This is a momentous day for the workers of the Southern California News Group.”

“We've been best when this is an inviting workplace for talented journalists.”

“I am grateful for the opportunity to tell the stories of those I cover and to be part of a team that is there to provide key information to our readers during some of the area's darkest times.”

“A reporter’s loyalty is to our community and our readers; a hedge fund’s is to profit.”

“Since our newsrooms have been slashed, we have seen the death of local news.”

“You will never regret having a voice.”

“The Ebenezer Scrooges who own these newspapers obviously don't care about investing in them, only about siphoning off the profits, and their disinterest is killing local journalism.”

Our election is finally here! Here’s how SCNG Guild journalists can vote.

It’s official: We are #1Newsroom1Union. The National Labor Relations Board rejected management’s effort to exclude dozens of journalists from our union, and we are now headed to an election.

“And as the saying goes, if you're not at the table, you're on the menu!”

“The rights of workers to negotiate for their jobs and resources need to be protected. What helps support journalists also helps support good journalism.”

“Covering sports can be a 24/7 job and that is often overlooked by understaffed newsrooms.”

“Will getting the Guild up and running there be easy? Hardly. But believe me when I tell you it's something worth fighting for.”

“Nobody told me about the stark difference between a unionized profession and a non-unionized profession until I lived it, one paycheck at a time.”

“Organizing is the only way we are going to protect ourselves from the hedge fund guillotine.”