Nick Leyva: Solidarity from a Guild journalist

Let me start out by saying how excited I am for my former colleagues at all the SCNG properties. Bringing the Guild into SCNG will indeed be a life-changing experience for your families as it has been for our family. It's not just higher wages, better working conditions and enhanced benefits that await you, but you will always have someone on your side when help is needed. Will getting the Guild up and running there be easy? Hardly. But believe me when I tell you it's something worth fighting for. Good luck in this endeavor.

Nick Leyva is a multiplatform editor for the Los Angeles Times and a member of the L.A. Times Guild. He worked for the Orange County Register and SCNG from 1993 to 2018.