Journalists at Utah’s Salt Lake Tribune announced they are forming a union to ensure The Tribune remains Utah’s independent voice.
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Prime Day Walkout Averted at Ziff Davis
Unionized journalists at Lifehacker, Mashable, and PCMag reach tentative contract deal with Ziff Davis that lifts wages by at least 3% and includes strong AI protections.
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Newsletter: Reviewed Workers Strike; Sun Sentinel Journalists Organize
Workers at Reviewed – a Gannett publication – are back on the digital picket line today after the Fourth of July holiday. The Reviewed Union struck earlier this week, citing the need for fair wages and a management’s status quo violation.
For the duration of bargaining, management has insisted on a proposal that would cut pay and writers and editors have been asked to take on additional duties, which is an illegal change to their working conditions.
“Gannett has consistently come to the table with bad-faith offers, while forcing all of us to do the job of multiple people for the same pay. As of the last month, they want us to do work outside of our job descriptions, with no associated pay increases. We’re fed up. We’re going on strike until Monday to send Gannett a message: Until you pay us what we deserve, it’s no longer business as usual,” said Madison Durham, a senior staff writer.
To help support us during the strike, please share and donate to the Reviewed Union strike fund so members can continue fighting for fair wages.
The journalists at the South Florida Sun Sentinel announced this week they are forming a union to defend the future of their newsroom and South Florida’s access to quality local journalism. An overwhelming majority of Sun Sentinel journalists, 88%, signed cards in favor of unionizing. The workers have demanded voluntary recognition by the owner, Tribune Media, which is owned by hedge fund Alden Global Capital.
The last two decades have been difficult for journalism in general, and for Sun Sentinel staffers in particular. They have seen staff levels razed and salaries and benefits cut. With diminishing resources, they pulled together and provided the region and the nation with Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the slaughter of 17 students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland in 2018. They continue to win awards and earn national praise for their reporting.
The workers organized at a rapid pace just one month after eight Tribune-owned publications ratified historic agreements.
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IAPE members voted by an overwhelming margin to approve a new four-year contract with Dow Jones & Company! Nearly 81% of eligible IAPE voters cast a ballot during the ratification process, a new record-high turnout for the union.
Over a year-long period, IAPE members mobilized and marched, packed virtual open bargaining rooms and pledged to walk out, painted picket signs and scribbled on post-it notes, and pushed management to a contract that includes: above-inflation wages, better healthcare coverage, some AI protections, and extra severance when jobs are cut as a result of new technology, among other benefits.
Their industry-leading contract shows what is possible when members organize to show the power of a dissatisfied and mobilized workforce.
Our Pittsburgh strikers are shipping out their new shirts — be sure to get one before they’re gone! You can nab one for yourself with a $20 donation to the strikers.
South Florida Sun Sentinel Journalists Announce Formation of Union
The journalists of the South Florida Sun Sentinel announced today they are forming a union to defend the future of their newsroom and South Florida’s access to quality local journalism.
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Reviewed Journalists to Walk Off The Job in Protest of Low Wage Offers
For Immediate Release: July 2, 2024
Media Contacts: Asya Pikovsky, communications@nyguild.org, 207-522-2442
BOSTON – Members of the Reviewed Union will go on strike from now until Monday, July 8 in protest of bad-faith bargaining and low wage offers from their parent company, Gannett Co. Inc., ahead of one of the busiest shopping weeks of the year. The Reviewed Union is one of more than 50 Gannett bargaining units represented by The NewsGuild-CWA.
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Newsletter: Journalism Legislation Advances in California!
The California Senate advanced two pieces of legislation that would help shore up journalism jobs in the state. Yesterday the California Senate passed a bill that would fund $500 million in local journalism jobs a year. Senate Bill 1327 was introduced by Senator Steve Glazer and would impose a data-mining fee on Big Tech to fund the jobs, clearing a two-thirds majority needed to advance in the California legislature.
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California Senate Passes $500 Million Journalism Jobs Bill
The California Senate passed a bill on Thursday that would fund $500 million in local journalism jobs a year. SB 1327 was introduced by Senator Steve Glazer and would impose a data-mining fee on Big Tech to fund the jobs, clearing a two-thirds majority needed to advance in the California legislature. This vote came one day after the Senate Judiciary Committee passed the California Journalism Preservation Act with a 9-2 vote.
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Rochester Democrat & Chronicle and Canandaigua Daily Messenger Journalists Win New Contract After Historic 19-Day Strike
New contract addresses decades of wage stagnation and improves job security
Media Contact: Asya Pikovsky, asya.pikovsky@gmail.com, 207-522-2442
ROCHESTER – Unionized journalists at the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle and Canandaigua Daily Messenger unanimously ratified a tentative agreement on a two-year collective bargaining contract today, after two and a half years of bargaining and a 19-day strike that forced Gannett to scramble to find coverage for a series of major news events, including the total solar eclipse in the Rochester area. The strike ended on April 24th, but the parties continued discussions over the past several weeks after journalists filed an Unfair Labor Practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board over allegations of bad-faith bargaining and retaliation for union activity.
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OUP USA Guild Stages One-Day Strike in Response to Unfair Labor Charges
MEDIA CONTACTS:
OUP USA Guild / oupusaguildnyc@gmail.com
Luis Espinosa / News Media Guild / 720-261-4578 / lespinosao@icloud.com
WHAT: Members of the Oxford University Press USA Guild (a unit of the News Guild-CWA Local
31222) will stage a one-day strike after filing several Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) charges against the
employer. This strike follows nearly three years of contract negotiations with Oxford University Press.
Speakers will include members of the Guild, News Media Guild President Vin Cherwoo, IAPE 1096
representative Marissa Dadiw, OUP author and labor historian Shannan Clark, and others.
Employees at America’s Largest Healthcare Union 1199SEIU-UHWE Vote to Unionize Themselves by Huge Margin: A Labor History Milestone
Bruce Jett, Washington-Baltimore News Guild Local Representative – (703) 627-4547 – b.corneljett@gmail.com
Washington, DC — Today, 1199SEIU-UHWE In House Staff – from New York to Massachusetts to Florida voted overwhelmingly by 82.3% to join the Washington-Baltimore News Guild (TNG-CWA Local 32035), securing collective bargaining rights for roughly 260 employees at America’s largest healthcare union representing over 450,000 members across the East Coast.
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