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Newsletter: U.S. public media slashed by $1.1 billion

Late last week the U.S. House of Representatives voted along party lines to cut $1.1 billion in previously allocated funding for public broadcasting. This rescission effort is part of a coordinated attack on journalists and media workers. Earlier this year Trump began blocking journalists — NewsGuild-CWA members — from attending White House events. His Federal Communications Commission chair has opened investigations into broadcasters including NPR and PBS. And he’s sued several news organizations, including suing the Wall Street Journal just this weekend.

Ozone House workers go public with union campaign

The frontline workers of Ozone House Youth and Family Services have officially gone public with their campaign to unionize with the Newspaper Guild of Detroit, TNG-CWA Local 34022. Workers now seek voluntary recognition from management.

Workers at Snopes.com win voluntary recognition

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 15, 2025

Media contact: carrie@mediaguildwest.org

Today, the workers of Snopes.com won voluntary recognition of their union, the Snopes Guild.

Buffalo History Museum event postponed after threats of violence were made against Buffalo News editorial cartoonist and family

The Buffalo Newspaper Guild and Buffalo History Museum are postponing a planned happy hour event this evening at the museum in light of serious concerns about public safety and direct threats that have warranted intervention by Buffalo police.

RELEASE: PEN Guild Heads to Arbitration Today Over POLITICO’s AI Violations

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
July 11, 2025

Media Contacts:
Dylan Manshack, Comms, WBNG — dmanshack@wbng.org, 202-445-4033
PEN Guild — politicoeenewsguild@gmail.com

PEN Guild Heads to Arbitration Today Over POLITICO’s AI Violations

WASHINGTON — Unionized journalists at POLITICO and E&E News will head to arbitration today in a consequential legal dispute over artificial intelligence. The hearing will determine whether POLITICO violated key protections around AI use that were secured in the PEN Guild’s first collective bargaining agreement—one of the first union contracts in the media industry to include enforceable rules for AI.

Post-Gazette Lawyer Argues Against PG Reporting — and facts — in Bizarre 3rd Circuit Court Appearance

Contact: Moira Bulloch, CWA Communications MBulloch@cwa-union.org, 202-434-1168

PHILADELPHIA – Lawyers representing the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette struggled to explain to a panel of judges why they should be exempt from federal labor law in two consecutive sets of oral arguments on Monday afternoon in the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals.

Newsletter: Boss faces contempt charges.

In five days, we’ll be in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette management will be on the defendant’s side of the courtroom.

After 32 months on strike the company is facing two major issues: an enforcement order from the National Labor Relations Board and contempt charges from the NLRB for the company’s failure to follow a rare 10(e) injunction we won in March.

City Bureau workers announce union drive with unanimous support

Contact: Email cbworkersguild@gmail.com or call 773-357-7096

CHICAGO — Workers at the nonprofit journalism lab City Bureau are forming a union and seeking to become a part of the Chicago News Guild, TNG-CWA Local 34071, joining the nationwide labor movement for a stronger media system.

Snopes workers announce intent to unionize, citing majority support

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 30, 2025
Contact: carrie@mediaguildwest.org

Employees of the oldest fact-checking organization on the internet, Snopes.com, announced their intent to form a union on June 30, 2025.

The Snopes Guild seeks voluntary recognition from CEO Chris Richmond, CFO Drew Schoentrup, executive editor Doreen Marchionni and director of accounting Amber Marsowicz after 80% of eligible staffers — and counting — signed union cards authorizing representation by the Media Guild of the West.

Public Library of Science workers reach first union contract

After a year and a half of negotiations, workers at the Public Library of Science (PLOS) have reached a tentative agreement on their first collective bargaining agreement, marking a major milestone for the academic publishing sector. Once ratified, the contract will lock in wage increases, just cause protections, job security language and a voice in how the nonprofit operates.