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McClatchy laid off 30% of its unionized workers; here’s how local coverage will suffer

Yesterday, the large news publisher McClatchy laid off more than 90 unionized journalists and media workers across 17 publications. They represent about 30% of all McClatchy workers unionized with The NewsGuild-CWA, at news outlets like The Miami Herald, The Sacramento Bee and The Kansas City Star.

These are journalists and other workers who have been asked to adjust, bend, mold and fit into an ever-changing business, some working for decades at McClatchy. They’ve done so seamlessly.

Their reward? They lost their jobs, cut by a company that should spend as much time figuring out how to use high-skilled employees as it does replacing their work with AI.

The departure of these talented reporters, visual journalists and writers will immediately leave gaping holes in local coverage for dozens of communities across the United States.

Statement from the Toledo NewsGuild on Block Communications’ decision to cease operations of The Blade

The Toledo Blade ended employees’ Labor Day weekend with an email Tuesday morning announcing it would close on Dec. 31 if it is not sold by then.

Prior to the announcement, the company had asked union employees to vote for a contract proposal that would have cut their severance in half, in addition to greenlighting giving away their work to Al, among other outsourcing. Workers voted that down, 46-25.

Union members’ objections were largely non-economical. This was reflected in Guild counterproposals.

California Legislature passes NewsGuild-backed local news bill

A bill that would provide California newsrooms with tax credits based on how many journalists they employ was passed this week by California’s Senate and Assembly. The measure, California’s Community NEWS Act, now sits on the desk of Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Two NewsGuild-CWA locals, Media Guild of the West and Pacific Media Workers Guild, were part of a coalition led by Rebuild Local News that has advocated for the bill since it was first introduced in February.

Graphic announcing the voluntary recognition of the Denver Legislative Aides

Denver’s legislative workers win voluntary recognition from city

Last week, Legislative Workers of Denver received voluntary recognition by Denver City Council and Denver Mayor Johnston. Legislative Workers of Denver is represented by the Denver Newspaper Guild, a local of The NewsGuild-CWA.

Legislative Workers of Denver is a collective group of part-time and full-time staff who provide specialized, professional-level work to support Denver’s 13 elected city council members.

Graphic with a photo of unionized journalists at the Centre Daily Times.

Centre Daily Times journalists of Central Pennsylvania win first contract in record time

Journalists at the Centre Daily Times (State College, Pa.) have ratified their first collective bargaining agreement with McClatchy in balloting that was tallied Tuesday.

The entire unionization process, from organizing to ratifying, took the community newspaper less than four full months after they organized in May. The agreement, won with support from The NewsGuild of Greater Philadelphia, covers eight workers and boasts significant gains in pay and AI protections over the length of the agreement.

Unionized USA Today Co. workers protest company’s irresponsible use of AI

Unionized USA Today Co. workers took a coordinated lunch break to protest company executives’ irresponsible implementation of artificial intelligence in their newsrooms.

Under the banner of “No Slop in Our Shops,” TNG-CWA-represented workers demanded in part that USA Today Co. incorporate common-sense guardrails into its AI use.

Unionized workers took to social media to describe how the company (formerly Gannett) has assertively promoted AI use at their newspapers, endangering the fragile trust of readers who count on the human journalists to cover their communities.

Lawsuit graphic showing the caption of a recent lawsuit involving The NewsGuild-CWA and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security

NewsGuild sues DHS challenging visa rule affecting foreign journalists, others

Media Contacts: media@nafsa.org, press@presidentsalliance.org, press@aft.org, highered@uaw.net, press@newsguild.org

Washington, D.C. — Today, NAFSA: Association of International Educators; the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration; the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts (AICUM); the American Federation Of Teachers (AFT); Graduate Labor Organization, AFT Local 6516 (GLO); International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW); United Auto Workers Local 2322; and The NewsGuild-CWA filed a complaint and a motion for preliminary injunction in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts challenging the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) final rule ending the Duration of Status (D/S) framework for international students, exchange visitors, and representatives of foreign media. Plaintiffs are represented by McDermott Will & Schulte.

The complaint argues that the final rule violates the Administrative Procedure Act because DHS failed to adequately assess its costs and benefits, meaningfully respond to public comments, consider less burdensome alternatives, or justify the rule based on its stated objectives. It also alleges that DHS provided an inadequate public comment period and exceeded its statutory authority. The rule replaces the longstanding D/S framework with fixed admission periods of no more than four years and requires international students and exchange visitors to apply for extensions of stay. It also restricts students’ ability to change educational objectives, transfer institutions, or pursue additional programs of study.

Graphic with text: “We have significant ethical issues with Palantir, whose artificial intelligence software has been used to advance widespread surveillance and power immigration crackdowns.”

USA Today Co.’s unionized journalists and media workers demand company end partnership with Palantir

For immediate release: Aug. 10, 2026
Contact: Jen Sheehan, jen@nyguild.org, 610-573-0740
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We, USA TODAY CO. (formerly Gannett) workers represented by The NewsGuild-CWA, were shocked to learn that our company has partnered with Palantir. While USA TODAY CO. CEO Mike Reed championed this partnership as a way to drive revenue, we believe it threatens to undermine trust in our news outlets and raises serious questions about the data security of our readers.

We have significant ethical issues with Palantir, whose artificial intelligence (A.I.) software has been used to advance widespread surveillance and power immigration crackdowns. Not only does partnering with Palantir, a major player in the news we cover, create an inherent conflict of interest, but it fails the journalists who have been assaulted and falsely arrested while covering immigration enforcement actions and protests.

Skagit news workers go on strike for fair pay, AI protections and more

The news workers of the Skagit Valley Herald, Anacortes American, and Stanwood-Camano News, represented by the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild, announced Friday that they went on strike.

After nine months of negotiating with owner Adams MultiMedia, the company has continued to insist it wants “no limitation on the use of Artificial Intelligence,” including the generation of news content, and has denied its journalists any protections from AI at these newspapers.

Photos of workers at Schneps media forming a union

Schneps Media workers overwhelmingly vote to unionize with IAPE Local 1096 and Guild

Contact: press@newsguild.org

NEW YORK – The Schneps Media Union overwhelmingly won their union election, with 90 percent of ballots cast in favor of joining the Independent Association of Publishers’ Employees (IAPE), Local 1096 of The NewsGuild-Communications Workers of America.

Workers held an in-person ballot election with the National Labor Relations Board on July 24 at both their Brooklyn and Long Island offices. The formation of the unit marks an important step forward toward better pay and news standards for community papers in the greater New York City area.