A letter was delivered to NBC management stating the reasoning for the walkout on Wednesday morning. Soon after the action was announced internally, guild-covered NBC and MSNBC staffers began changing their statuses on an internal messaging system to “ready to walk out.”

Union members and supporters plan to protest in front of the company’s 30 Rock office building in Manhattan on Thursday morning.

“We are disappointed by the NewsGuild’s continued attempts to misrepresent the facts while we work in good faith with them to reach an agreement,” an NBC News spokesperson told The Washington Post on Wednesday morning.

[News reporters misrepresenting facts? Presumably those employed by MSNBC? The deuce you say! Maybe the C-suite at NBC News should rethink their messaging strategy, eh? — Ed]