“Having worked at the Orange County Register for nine years, I am well aware of the tumult and chaos that diminished it over the past couple decades. Consider the guild the first step to returning it to greatness.”

“With every wave of furloughs, buyouts and layoffs, we have suffered losses that go unacknowledged.”

“I want our communities to get the coverage they deserve, which can only happen with newsrooms that aren’t cut to the bone.”

“We do this work because we care about democracy, but to truly have a strong fourth estate journalists need to be paid appropriately.”

“By forming a union, we are fighting for ourselves and the future of our newspapers.”

“Through conversations with people of color across the company this past year, I’ve learned that many of us feel underpaid and undervalued.”

“The editors in our organization are good people committed to producing the best product we possibly can. The owners of our organization appear not to care less, so long as the money is rolling in.”

The journalists’ union, the SCNG Guild, will be a unit of the Media Guild of the West, a local of The NewsGuild-CWA.