LAW360 UNION TO BOSSES: The verdict is in, it’s time to strike

For immediate release: Aug. 19, 2024
Contact: Jen Sheehan, jen@nyguid.org, 610-573-0740

After nearly two years of bargaining, unionized journalists at the LexisNexis-owned newsroom are ready to walk off the job in September

NEW YORK – Unionized editorial workers at LexisNexis-owned Law360 have put management on notice that they will walk off the job on an unfair labor practice (ULP) strike in September unless there’s real progress in rectifying the harm caused by the company’s unlawful tactics and at the bargaining table.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Faces Federal Injunction for Violating Workers’ Rights in Nation’s Longest Running Strike


PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PG) faces severe consequences for breaking federal labor law after the National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday filed to enjoin the company for its unlawful behavior during and leading to the country’s longest-running strike.

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Hearst Connecticut Staff Seek Better Pay and Conditions with NewsGuild Union Drive

Reporters, photographers, editors and digital producers in Connecticut’s largest newsroom are working to form a union with the NewsGuild-CWA. On August 8, the staff of Hearst Connecticut Media Group went public with their union drive, with more than 80 percent of our 110-person unit having signed union cards. Staff presented Hearst with a mission statement signed by the majority of our unit and asked the company to voluntarily recognize our union. 

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NY NewsGuild to NYPD: We Will Not Be Intimidated

For Immediate Release: Aug. 7, 2024
Media Contact: Jen Sheehan, jen@nyguild.org

NEW YORK – The Daily News Union – a unit of The NewsGuild of New York – sent an open letter to NYPD brass on Tuesday, demanding an apology after NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry attempted to physically intimidate the Daily News Police Bureau Chief following a press conference last week.

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Newsletter: Journalism is by humans, for humans

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490 days after he was unjustly detained by Russian authorities, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is finally coming home.

Throughout Evan’s unjust detention, members of IAPE TNG-CWA Local 1096, Dow Jones employees, and supporters everywhere changed their social media avatars and members distributed “Free Evan Now” buttons as fast as IAPE could deliver them to show support for Evan and press freedom.

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Prism Workers United unionizes with Pacific Media Workers Guild

Update: Prism leadership voluntarily recognized Prism Workers United on 7/31

The workers at the nonprofit newsroom Prism Reports announced today they are unionizing. In forming Prism Workers United, workers seek a seat at the table in shaping what a fair, equitable, and compassionate workplace can be. 

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South Florida Sun Sentinel workers win union election by unanimous landslide

Deerfield Beach, FLORIDA – A supermajority of employees at the South Florida Sun Sentinel voted Monday to form a union to fight for stronger job protections, better pay and benefits, and a louder voice in newsroom decisions.

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Deal reached for unionized Oxford University Press staff, would raise wages 22% for lowest-paid

Unionized workers at Oxford University Press USA reached a tentative agreement Thursday on a historic first contract that would dramatically raise worker pay, establish job security, and create other important workplace rights at the world’s largest academic publishing house, union officials said.

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Newsletter: 80+ first contracts in 3 Years

Earlier this month we lost Jane McAlevey, who inspired so many Guild members to do the hard work of No Shortcuts, her book and training that taught us:

  • The power to win is in the community, not the boardroom. 
  • A strong union is built through strong one-on-one connections between rank-and-file workers. 
  • Chart and map out workplaces. Really understand worker sentiment. 
  • Build structure tests.
  • Open up bargaining.
  • Escalate to super majority collective actions, including strikes.
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