Last week brought both celebration and heartbreak for the merged, wall-to-wall union at Calmatters and The Markup Guild. On March 10, after months of tough negotiations, workers ratified a strong first contract that delivers essential protections, benefits and raises for members.
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The NewsGuild-CWA stands with the journalists and listeners affected by President Trump’s efforts to cut funding and sideline journalists who for decades have provided news to an international audience often living under repressive regimes.
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March 13, 2025
Striking Journalists Maintain Digital Picket Lines with Solidarity from Readers and Former Colleagues
PITTSBURGH – Today, the Communications Workers of America (CWA) union announced that striking production and advertising workers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PG) have accepted a buyout offer after the newspaper outsourced production of its print edition to the Butler Eagle, eliminating 31 union jobs in Allegheny County. Journalists and newsroom staff represented by the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh (TNG-CWA Local 38061) remain on strike.
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It’s been a couple of weeks since my last newsletter and there’s been a lot of news across our union!
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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.
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In a labor landscape where billionaires and corporations have outsized power and resources to stamp out unionizing campaigns, a different kind of organizing is proving that workers can, and are, fighting back. Worker-to-worker organizing is taking hold, from Amazon warehouses to Starbucks stores to America’s newsrooms. And it’s winning, even when faced with rampant and illegal union-busting activities from the bosses.
Continue reading “Worker-to-worker organizing is winning: Eric Blanc and NewsGuild organizers talk about his new book”
Two unions, poised to walk off the job, achieve life-changing agreements that lift wages, provide job security and strengthen local news.
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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.
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OMAHA, NE – Yesterday, workers at The Union for Contemporary Art, an arts and culture nonprofit in Omaha, NE, publicly announced the intention to unionize with The NewsGuild-CWA, joining the Denver Newspaper Guild, Local 37074. A supermajority of staff signed union cards and demanded voluntary recognition at the start of the working day on February 25, 2025.
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The Trump administration has targeted independent media in the U.S. by barring the Associated Press, seizing control of the press pool and kicking out other longstanding members of the press corps from covering White House events.
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