Wednesday was a bad news/good news kind of day for workers at The Appeal, who announced in May that they were forming The Appeal Union.
Management has decided to shut down the online publication because of financial concerns, effective June 30. Clearly, bad news.
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Workers at the online petition company Change.org in Canada and the U.S. are unionizing in a cross-border campaign, with the Canadian contingent joining CWA Canada — an arm of the Guild — and the U.S. group joining CWA Local 9410.
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Update: Staffers at New Era Colorado announced Sept. 16 that they won voluntary recognition of their union from management of the nonprofit.
Update: Staffers at ACLU of Minnesota announced July 2 that they won voluntary recognition of their union from management of the nonprofit.
Staffers at the ACLU of Minnesota, Big Green and New Era Colorado have announced that they are unionizing with The NewsGuild-CWA.
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The NewsGuild of New York wins election as bargaining representative of more than 300 employees.
Editorial employees of Insider voted 241-14 to be represented by The NewsGuild of New York Local 31003 in an election supervised by the National Labor Relations Board that concluded on Monday.
The bargaining unit of more than 300 digital journalists includes reporters, web editors, producers, video editors, social media producers, animators, photographers, designers and copy editors.
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Two NewsGuild units reached tentative agreements on first contracts this week, following last week’s dramatic settlements at Condé Nast publications.
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NewsGuild Region 2 Vice President Steve Cook stepped down from the Executive Council in late May, one year after his employment with the Bloomberg Industry Group ended due to a layoff.
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Workers at Washingtonian magazine announced June 23 that they are forming a union.
“For the past 56 years, Washingtonian has been a vital authority on the DC region,” they said in a statement. “We, the Washingtonian staff, have been deeply committed to that mission throughout the pandemic, publishing essential updates about COVID-19, covering protests in the streets, and producing the website’s most-read stories ever—all while continuing to create the monthly print magazine that our readers have counted on for decades.
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Agreement Follows Nearly Three Years of Negotiations and Escalating Member Activism
NewsGuild members at The New Yorker, Pitchfork and Ars Technica announced Wednesday that a strike has been averted and an agreement in principle has been reached on historic first contracts with Condé Nast, the publications’ parent company.
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Employees at the New York office of Oxford University Press announced Wednesday that they are unionizing.
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About 140 journalists at 11 newsrooms in the Southern California have formed the SCNG Guild, after 64 ballots were counted in support of unionizing, versus 19 against on Friday.
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