Guild members of the Los Angeles Times have tookpart in a one-day walkout to demonstration impending layoffs
ByThe Associated Press
January 19, 2024, 5: 32 PM
Matt Hamilton, an investigative pressreporter for the Los Angeles Times, talks to personnel and fans throughout a rally in downtown Los Angeles on Friday, Jan. 19,2024 Guild members of the Los Angeles Times gotinvolved in one-day walkout to demonstration impending layoffs. The task action Friday is the veryfirst newsroom union work blockage in the history of the paper, which started printing in1881 (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Guild members of the Los Angeles Times strolled off the task Friday to demonstration what it states are impending layoffs, the veryfirst newsroom union work interruption in the paper’s 143-year history.
The paper’s reporters and their fans rallied in an LA civic center park, shouting and waving indications that checkout, “Don’t Cut Our Future.” The guild stated members would likewise demonstration in other cities.
The guild stated in a declaration that the Times is preparation to lay off a “significant” number of reporters, however that the union cannot define the number duetothefactthat management has firmlyinsisted on negoti