Diversity Committee Summit
The NYGuild Diversity Committee invites you to join our shared fight to combat racism in our workplaces with fellow Guild members on Thursday, August 13 at 6:30 p.m. ET. Register now for our first Guild-wide Diversity Committee Summit. As union members, as journalists, as humans, we must reflect and take action to confront systemic racism and demand that management work with us in dismantling inequality in our industry.
Whether your unit has a Diversity Committee, wants to form one, or you’re curious to know how else you and your coworkers can take action and demand change, we encourage you to participate. We’ll talk about and share current efforts to address diversity in our workplaces, successes and obstacles encountered, management’s actions (or lack thereof) focused on racial injustice, and tactics to reach our goals in our workplaces and, more broadly, across our union.
We’d love to have members from every shop represented at the meeting for a robust discussion. Our goal is to plan next steps and share resources to support the ongoing work to create more inclusive and equitable newsrooms and workplaces. Register here.
Collectively we can build on the many Guild-represented workplaces and newsrooms that have established Diversity Committees and have been working collaboratively with management to implement significant changes, from hiring practices to wage gap studies, and to find opportunities for advancement.