Jon Schleuss | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA

Newsletter: Chicago Guild sues ICE

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.

Newsletter: Journalists on visas are under attack

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.

Newsletter: In France, AI profits go to reporters — so why are U.S. journalists shut out?

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.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette strikers pose at the 2025 Pittsburgh Labor Day Parade

Happy Labor/Labour Day!

Happy Labor Day!

I hope you, like most folks, get the day off today and can use it to recharge.

Newsletter: We surrounded the Post-Gazette publisher’s mansion

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.

Newsletter: U.S. public media slashed by $1.1 billion

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.

Newsletter: Boss faces contempt charges.

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.

Newsletter: We’re suing DHS for attacking our members

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.

Statement on law enforcement targeting journalists in Los Angeles

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:

Newsletter: 80% YES! at Hearst. Post workers up next.

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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!