The NewsGuild-CWA 2025 Sector Conference

August 8-9, 2025 | Pittsburgh, Pa

Overview

The 2025 Sector Conference of The NewsGuild-CWA will be held on Saturday, August 9, in Pittsburgh, Pa. with workshops held from 1-5 p.m. ET the day before, on Friday, August 8. 

NewsGuild-CWA delegates set union policy at the Sector Conference. The Sector Conference may adopt rules, conduct Sector business, pass resolutions and amend TNG-CWA’s Constitution.

Meetings and lodging will both be at the Wyndham Grand, 600 Commonwealth Avenue. The sector conference will be followed by the CWA Convention, August 11-12 in Pittsburgh’s David L. Lawrence Convention Center. 

The deadline to submit resolutions for the Sector Conference is July 25. Submit resolutions to Executive Vice President Marian Needham at mneedham@cwa-union.org.

Registration

Sector Conference Online Registration (SCOR) / Instructions
Cost: $125
In-person registration to get your badge will be on Friday morning and afternoon in the lobby outside the Commonwealth Room at the Wyndham Grand.

Hotel lodging

Wyndham Grand
600 Commonwealth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
$184 per night plus taxes. Reserve by July 15, 2025
Reserve here

Sector Conference Delegate & Alternate check-in

11 a.m. – 2 p.m. ET Friday, August 8
Wyndham Grand

Workshops

1 – 5 p.m. ET Friday, August 8
Fort Pitt and Smithfield rooms
Wyndham Grand

Delegate count

Locals must have made per capita payments through the month of April 2025 to be in good standing for the sector conference. The number of delegates for each local is determined by the average number of per capitas paid by the local in the averaging period described in Article VII.2(c) of the Guild constitution. For the 2025 Sector Conference, the averaging period is April 2024 through March 2025. The number of delegates allocated to each local is shown in SCOR.  

Both the Guild and CWA constitutions require that delegates and alternates be elected by secret ballot. The formula CWA uses for allotting convention delegates differs from the Guild formula and yields fewer delegates.

The Sector Conference adopts rules for the conference. The 2023 rules are in effect until the Sector Conference commences in August.

CWA Convention

August 11-12
David Lawrence Convention Center
1000 Ft. Duquesne Blvd.
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Convention website