Washington Post Guild

This shows the true scope of these layoffs — and it’s deeper than numbers on a page. These numbers aren’t just statistics. They reflect careers, communities, and a profound shift in who gets to shape the journalism and mission of The Washington Post.

After decimating the organization, we are bargaining per our contract with management. We have featured testimonials from Post employees. Here’s some of them had to say. Here’s what these layoffs have done to us. #SaveThePost 🧵

… I cannot imagine any path to rebuilding our brand and our readership without that.”

After decimating the organization, we are bargaining per our contract with management. We have featured testimonials from Post employees. Here’s some of them had to say. Here’s what these layoffs have done to us. #SaveThePost 🧵

… and families to death’s door? Who is going to wade into those scenes and share the stories of those who are left behind? Who is going to document those experiences and translate them into a thesis of what is unfolding in this country?”

After decimating the organization, we are bargaining per our contract with management. We have featured testimonials from Post employees. Here’s some of them had to say. Here’s what these layoffs have done to us. #SaveThePost 🧵

“These cuts make no sense and don’t appear to have been made by anyone with any passing understanding of what our team did or does. You took a group that had real passion for the work and people they did it with and turned that into a group that feels betrayed, broken, confused.”

After decimating the organization, we are bargaining per our contract with management. We have featured testimonials from Post employees. Here’s some of them had to say. Here’s what these layoffs have done to us. #SaveThePost 🧵

“When I leave [...], I cannot say with certainty that I’m going to subscribe to The Washington Post. I am not alone in that, I know our subscribers feel the same way …

After decimating the organization, we are bargaining per our contract with management. We have featured testimonials from Post employees. Here’s some of them had to say. Here’s what these layoffs have done to us. #SaveThePost 🧵

“I didn’t want to be disconnected from my beloved colleagues. I wanted to be with them no matter what happened. If I was to be spared, I wanted to support those who were not. And if I was to be let go, I wanted to feel the unity of my colleagues …

After decimating the organization, we are bargaining per our contract with management. We have featured testimonials from Post employees. Here’s some of them had to say. Here’s what these layoffs have done to us. #SaveThePost 🧵

“I almost couldn’t believe it: That we would be laid off by email, standing on the sidewalk outside the office we’d reported to in the middle of a pandemic, when people were throwing bricks and setting cars on fire outside, when we’d been hit with tear gas and pepper spray.”

After decimating the organization, we are bargaining per our contract with management. We have featured testimonials from Post employees. Here’s some of them had to say. Here’s what these layoffs have done to us. #SaveThePost 🧵

… The people who carried the work, raised concerns, warned about budgets and made our team successful are the ones who were let go.”

After decimating the organization, we are bargaining per our contract with management. We have featured testimonials from Post employees. Here’s some of them had to say. Here’s what these layoffs have done to us. #SaveThePost 🧵

The Washington Post Guild is alarmed and appalled by federal law enforcement’s search and seizure of reporter Hannah Natanson’s property and personal devices. Hannah is a valued member of our union whose work covering the federal workforce has been essential (1/3)

in understanding the impact of the Trump administration’s policies. The extraordinary decision to execute a search warrant at a journalist’s home should shock and dismay everyone who cares about a free and independent press. (2/3)