Taking a break with my colleagues. We deserve a fair contract. It's been a long 596 days. L.A. Times Guild 🦅 forever ✊🏽

The Festival of Books is this weekend. Authors and attendees, here's how you can help Los Angeles Times journalists who have been working for a year and a half without a contract:

- Sign the petition
- Voice support for the L.A. Times Guild 🦅 during your panel

Details: latguild.com/la-times-festi…

Ended a call with my editor and another reporter short today to participate in a lunch walk-out today in protest of mgmt refusing to give our laid off colleagues the severance they deserve. It's simple. honor the contract. Pay our colleagues the severance they're owed.

I’m standing with my colleagues today to send this message to our company: Honor the contract. Pay our colleagues the severance they're owed. L.A. Times Guild 🦅

My former colleagues like James are going to BAT for me and others who got laid off in January. L.A. Times management is trying to cheat us out of thousands of dollars in severance. Grateful to James and L.A. Times Guild 🦅 for continuing to fight for us

“As more antidemocratic political candidates seek office, we’re losing the people who are at the frontlines of holding them accountable.”

What the mass L.A. Times layoffs just told us about the future of journalism h/t Justin Ray
sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo…

Out here with L.A. Times Guild 🦅 observing bargaining after the layoffs — and still getting work done — even as our managers keep sending security personnel to sweep the floor and keep an eye on us. It’s their right, but not exactly a sign some leaders want to work collaboratively!

To those who have sent messages of support, I can't thank you enough for your warm, appropriately profanity-laced notes.

The LATimes reported that Google spent $1.2 million on an ad blitz to kill the bill.

Queenie Wong, the reporter who wrote the story, announced Tuesday she was among the journalists who lost their jobs.

sfchronicle.com/politics/artic…

Francine is one of the greats. Heart of gold, with an artist's eye. This is all so wrenching.

Heartbroken. I’m not sure what else to say atm. I keep talking to such good, relentless colleagues and friends that the Los Angeles Times is losing today and I’m just heartbroken. Important voices for a community that needs their stories told.

hmu if you want someone to run your reddit or instagram or experiment with new platforms or send your alerts or manage your aggregator relationships or do your homepage bc i do all of that!!!!

There’s a lot to be saddened by over these LA Times layoffs, but losing the team at the Washington DC bureau is going to hurt coverage of what’s happening in Congress for the folks back home in California. And it’s an election year. Huge loss for the public.

I was laid off yesterday from the LA Times along with over 100 other staffers. Thankful for my time there and for getting to work with some amazing people. Shout out to the L.A. Times Guild 🦅 and L.A. Times Latino Caucus for their support. Send any good job leads my way if you see any :)

No words can express the horrific decision to layoff 115 of my latimes colleagues. Francine Orr represents the very heart of the LATimes and has risked her life many times for the public good. L.A. Times Guild 🦅 is fighting to preserve some of these jobs. #sad isn’t enough.

I’ll let people make their own individual announcements, but yes the LA Times Washington bureau was decimated. They haven’t been filling jobs for two years now and that reduced number was cut even more today. There are five reporters left covering DC

I’ve been laid off from the Los Angeles Times. It’s been an honor to work at the paper for nearly a decade, launching a video game beat, helping to win Pulitzers, covering diverse communities. To my colleagues, L.A. Times Guild 🦅, readers: Thank you.

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I just want to add that the best part of working at Los Angeles Times has always been the people in the trenches with you. And I will always be rooting for them and L.A. Times Guild 🦅. ✊🏽🦅

'Preserving democracy is contingent upon a free and robust press, and the LA Times has been instrumental in upholding this democratic principle.'