Last week, McClatchy laid off 30% of its unionized workers. Over 90 unionized journalists and media workers across 17 publications lost their jobs.
Workers at some of the affected outlets are raising money to support their laid-off colleagues. These fundraisers are linked below.
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NORTHAMPTON, MA — Workers at the Cooperative Development Institute (CDI) are celebrating the formation of their union, CDI Workers United (CDIWU), after receiving voluntary recognition from CDI leadership on August 31, 2026.
The workers are represented by the Providence Newspaper Guild, The NewsGuild-CWA Local 31041. Workers organized around shared priorities including meaningful participation in workplace decisions, transparency, accountability, equitable working conditions, and a desire to strengthen communication across programs and throughout the organization.
“We organized because we believe deeply in CDI and in the cooperative values that guide our work,” said Addy Schuetz, a member of CDIWU. “Every day, we help communities build structures that give people a meaningful voice in the decisions that affect them. We believe workers deserve that same opportunity. Forming CDI Workers United gives us a way to bring those values more fully into our own workplace and to work together toward a stronger, more sustainable CDI.”
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A federal judge issued a nationwide injunction on Monday, halting the Trump administration’s latest efforts to impose new restrictions on visas primarily used by students and international journalists.
The changes would have severely limited the duration of visas for journalists working in the United States for international news outlets, and placed additional restrictions on how long students can remain in this country and whether they could change or extend their planned studies.
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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.
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An impartial arbitrator ruled on Monday that Oxford University Press violated its contract with Guild members when it laid off 13 workers in 2024. The arbitrator ordered the company to resolve the issue with the News Media Guild, the NewsGuild-CWA local that represents workers at Oxford University Press. If the parties can’t agree on a remedy, the arbitrator will provide one by November.
“The ruling is historic,” said Tony Winton, the News Media Guild’s executive director, “because it vindicates language in many NewsGuild contracts negotiated to limit offshoring and use of non-bargaining unit personnel.”
Workers first organized in 2021 and won a collective agreement in 2024. Shortly after the agreement was signed, management fired staff and transferred their work out to the United Kingdom, violating the jurisdiction article in the contract.
The arbitrator wrote that the employer violated Article 1, Section 4 of the contract “when it laid off the 13 bargaining unit employees because of the assignment or reassignment of the protected work to non-unit employees.”
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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.
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Happy Labor Day!
I’ve got a gift for every member this Labor Day: The Guild Reporter archives.
The Guild Reporter was the printed newspaper of The American Newspaper Guild, which became The Newspaper Guild, which became The NewsGuild-CWA we know today.
Former Guild President Bernie Lunzer digitized the physical copies of The Reporter a few years ago and we just put it online. Today. For the first time ever.
More than 1,300 issues stretch back to our founding in 1933 and cover an enormous amount of news: publishers trying to exclude journalists from the National Labor Relations Act, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt joining the Guild, Ernest Hemingway donating to the Toronto Guild’s defense fund, journalists and editorial workers unionizing at The New York Times, the first collective agreement at the Canadian Broadcast Corporation, the first days of our longest-ever strike and the issue after September 11, 2001.
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Los Angeles – U.S.-based journalists and media workers at Le Monde, the largest national newspaper in France, are beginning a one day unfair labor practice strike Monday. Every worker voted to strike after the Los Angeles-based subsidiary SEM USA Corp. refused to bargain in good faith. Le Monde Union is affiliated with the Media Guild of the West (TNG-CWA Local 39213), which also represents journalists at the Los Angeles Times. The collective action comes after several months of unsuccessful negotiations with the newspaper’s management, which is based in Paris. The company has committed several unfair labor practices during the course of bargaining by failing to provide counterproposals for months during bargaining sessions, setting arbitrary deadlines to conclude negotiations and proposing changes to tentative agreements.
Workers handle a portion of editorial work and contribute to the production of La Matinale, the newspaper’s morning news app and overnight updates for Le Monde’s French and English websites. They also produce content for Réveil Courrier, the morning app from Courrier International, which is distributed from Los Angeles.
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Workers at The Investigative Journalism Foundation (IJF) have filed to join the Canadian Media Guild (CMG) as members.
The union filed with the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) on Thursday, September 3rd, after a more than a dozen staff signed union cards. This will be a wall-to-wall bargaining unit including workers in the editorial, development and tech departments at the digital media company. These workers are based across the country, providing their skills and knowledge to the nationwide media sector.
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News Media Guild President Vinay Cherwoo, who labored for decades to improve the lives of generations of media workers, died Thursday after a long illness, his family said. He was 56.
Cherwoo was a New York-based sports editor at The Associated Press, where over the course of three decades he developed an expertise and deep knowledge of many professional sports. His service to the Guild started in the 1990s, when he was elected to the union’s Executive Committee and served as a rank-and-file negotiator on many contracts with the AP.
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