Author: NewsGuild of New York

NEW YORK – NewsGuild of New York-represented staff at ProPublica have won a first contract with the nonprofit investigative newsroom in a deal that gives staff up to 24% raises over the life of the agreement, mandates transparency around the use of AI, protects hybrid work, offers significant health-care savings and more.

The ProPublica Guild, which represents more than 150 reporters, video journalists, development professionals, copy editors and other staff, overwhelmingly voted to ratify their four-year contract on Friday.

“This contract is a major step forward for our members,” said Agnel Philip, a data reporter and unit chair of the ProPublica Guild. “What we won is a testament to our hard work and shows what we can achieve when we stand together.”

Highlights include increasing wages a total of 11% over the life of the deal, salary floors that lift the lowest-paid workers, “just cause” job protections, and more.

NEW YORK – Unionized editorial staff at Fortune have won their first contract for both digital and print employees, a deal that lifts wages a total of 11% for the life of the deal, sets new salary standards, provides job security protections, and more. 

NEW YORK –  Unionized journalists at the Daily News have reached a tentative agreement with the paper’s owner, Alden Global Capital, for a first contract that includes new, life-changing salary minimums, 6% wage increases over six months and new benefits for part-timers. 

Union ratification on the two-year contract deal will be held in the coming days, bringing to a close three years of contentious bargaining with the owner of the nation’s second largest newspaper chain. The union, which represents the tabloid’s print, digital and photo employees, organized as a bargaining unit of The NewsGuild of New York in 2021. 

NEW YORK – Journalists at three newspapers in New Jersey represented by The NewsGuild of New York, have voted 98% to ratify their first contract with Gannett, lifting long-stagnant wages by over 25% on average, and averting a planned walkout.

The Record Guild, which represents 68 journalists at The Bergen Record, The Daily Record and The New Jersey Herald, ratified the deal Sunday night. 

The agreement with the nation’s largest newspaper chain is the culmination of more than three years of contentious bargaining, petitions, walkouts and rallies. The union organized in 2021 and began bargaining in January 2022. 

Editorial staff at The Bergen Record, represented by The NewsGuild of New York, are fed up with the newspaper chain’s refusal to agree to a fair contract with living wages, despite three years of bargaining.

NEW YORK – Journalists represented by The NewsGuild of New York at the Bergen Record voted overwhelmingly to walk out, a move precipitated by Gannett’s chronic union-busting and unwillingness to agree to a fair contract with livable wages. 

NEW YORK: Unionized editorial staff represented by The NewsGuild of NY at NBC News, NBC News NOW, and TODAY have reached a tentative contract agreement with the network. The deal protects members during future corporate restructuring and delays recently announced layoffs, providing targeted workers with additional pay, health care, and rehire rights. 

NBC Digital NewsGuild, which represents about 300 workers, will vote to ratify the agreement in the coming days. If ratified, this will be the first contract for the bargaining unit, which was certified in 2019.