Author: Media Guild of the West

Los Angeles – U.S.-based journalists and media workers at Le Monde, the largest national newspaper in France, are going on a one-day unfair labor practice strike this weekend. The work stoppage follows an initial one-day strike on September 7. Every worker voted in favor of striking again, following many months of unsuccessful bargaining with the outlet’s management.

Le Monde’s Los Angeles-based subsidiary SEM USA Corp. has engaged in several unfair practices while bargaining a first contract with employees unionized with the Media Guild of the West, a local of The NewsGuild-CWA. The company has set arbitrary bargaining deadlines and requested to reopen agreements that had been previously agreed upon. The Guild filed an unfair labor practice charge on November 2 after management had failed to propose a new bargaining session for nearly two months.

TUCSON, Ariz. – Journalists at the Arizona Daily Star announced Thursday, Oct. 15, their intention to form a union with The NewsGuild-CWA and are calling on USA TODAY Co. to voluntarily recognize their union.

The announcement follows USA TODAY Co.’s September 2026 acquisition of the Arizona Daily Star from Lee Enterprises, ending the companies’ longstanding joint operating agreement. 

As the newspaper begins a new chapter under USA TODAY Co.’s ownership, the Star’s reporters, photographers and copy editors are calling on their new parent company to demonstrate its stated commitment to local journalism by respecting employees’ collective voice and voluntarily recognizing their union.