An injunction now bars the Trump administration from assaulting journalists in Southern California. On September 10 we won a preliminary injunction blocking the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which includes the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs & Border Protection, from brutalizing journalists, legal observers and protestors.
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NewsGuild and CWA members recognized Labor Day across the continent — from DC to Buffalo, Toronto and Pittsburgh. They marched, rallied, picnicked and showed what solidarity and power look like.
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Happy Labor Day!
I hope you, like most folks, get the day off today and can use it to recharge.
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Whew! It’s been a while since my last newsletter, and that’s because The NewsGuild staff and I were laser-focused on preparing for our 2025 Sector Conference in Pittsburgh! Every two years elected Guild leaders from across North America come together and pass resolutions, make changes to our Constitution and set the vision for our union.
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Late last week the U.S. House of Representatives voted along party lines to cut $1.1 billion in previously allocated funding for public broadcasting. This rescission effort is part of a coordinated attack on journalists and media workers. Earlier this year Trump began blocking journalists — NewsGuild-CWA members — from attending White House events. His Federal Communications Commission chair has opened investigations into broadcasters including NPR and PBS. And he’s sued several news organizations, including suing the Wall Street Journal just this weekend.
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In five days, we’ll be in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette management will be on the defendant’s side of the courtroom.
After 32 months on strike the company is facing two major issues: an enforcement order from the National Labor Relations Board and contempt charges from the NLRB for the company’s failure to follow a rare 10(e) injunction we won in March.
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This week we joined journalists, protestors and legal observers suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Secretary Kristi Noem for federal law enforcement’s excessive use of force in the protests in Southern California.
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Media Contact: Dylan Manshack, dmanshack@cwa-union.org | 202-445-4033
WASHINGTON (June 11) — The NewsGuild-CWA, representing more than 28,000 journalists and other workers across North America, released the following statement from Jon Schleuss, president of The NewsGuild-CWA, on the police targeting of reporters in Los Angeles:
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I can’t help but almost laugh at how much news is happening across our union since I last wrote to you. Let’s goooooo!
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Radio Free Asia may soon be getting its Congressionally-mandated funding [again]. Late Wednesday the full bench of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit lifted a stay that had blocked a preliminary injunction ordering the U.S. Agency for Global Media to distribute Congressionally mandated funds to grantees including Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe and others. We’ve got about 100 members at Radio Free Asia and the vast majority were furloughed in March after President Trump signed an executive order essentially shuttering the agency and several newsrooms.
Continue reading “Newsletter: Susan DeCarava of NewsGuild of New York makes history”