Last week our strikers in Pittsburgh won big! They received an incredible decision by a three-judge panel at the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals. The judges ordered the company repeal more than five years of worker rights violations and to compensate the workers impacted by violations of federal law.
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Having won all their October of 2022 strike demands — thru the courts — strikers ready to get back to PG
PITTSBURGH — Striking workers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PG) sent their return to work offer to the company on Monday, heralding the end of the longest-running strike in the United States. They offered to return to work at the PG’s North Shore office on the morning of Monday, Nov. 24, and asked the company to inform strikers if they are being asked to report at a different time or place.
One week ago, the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the PG to restore the terms of the 2014-17 contract that the paper illegally, unilaterally discarded in July of 2020, including the health care plan, some workers’ paid time off, the short-term disability plan, and the right to fight discipline from managers, among other collectively bargained workplace rights. The health care plan the company imposed effectively cut workers’ wages by thousands of dollars each year as the PG dumped costs onto its employees.
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Condé Nast illegally fired four Condé United leaders after they confronted the boss to demand answers about abrupt layoffs and the closure of Teen Vogue. These terminations are a blatant act of retaliation and an attempt to silence union journalists holding power to account.
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Last week Business Insider quietly rolled out an artificially intelligent “author” and journalists got loud. The company, which is controlled by Axel Springer in Germany, launched a byline page for “Business Insider AI” with a description that the “byline uses generative AI tools to draft news stories so we can bring readers more information, more quickly.”
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Three years ago tomorrow the journalists of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh went on an unfair labor practice strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. While they withheld their labor at the paper, they kept telling stories in the Pittsburgh Union Progress. To mark three years on strike, they’re asking each other to share their thoughts about their fight for a fair contract. I wanted to run two profiles in full, which were originally published in the PUP. Other news from around our union follows below.
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Violence against journalists continues to be committed by the United States government.
The Chicago Guild joined others in suing Immigration and Customs Enforcement for attacking journalists. The suit was filed yesterday and comes after repeated clashes between protestors and ICE agents at a facility in Broadview. Federal agents targeted several Guild members while reporting on the clashes despite being visibly identified as members of the press.
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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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