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Group of unions show strong support for California Journalism Preservation Act

Several unions including The NewsGuild-CWA, SAG-AFTRA, NABET-CWA, the National Writers Union and local unions signed onto a letter enthusiastically supporting the California Journalism Preservation Act, Assembly Bill 886.

The legislation would unlock millions of dollars a year to support journalism jobs in the largest state in the U.S. and follows other journalism jobs bills that The NewsGuild-CWA helped pass in New York and Illinois.

Rochester Democrat & Chronicle and Canandaigua Daily Messenger Journalists Win New Contract After Historic 19-Day Strike

New contract addresses decades of wage stagnation and improves job security

Media Contact: Asya Pikovsky, asya.pikovsky@gmail.com, 207-522-2442

ROCHESTER – Unionized journalists at the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle and Canandaigua Daily Messenger unanimously ratified a tentative agreement on a two-year collective bargaining contract today, after two and a half years of bargaining and a 19-day strike that forced Gannett to scramble to find coverage for a series of major news events, including the total solar eclipse in the Rochester area. The strike ended on April 24th, but the parties continued discussions over the past several weeks after journalists filed an Unfair Labor Practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board over allegations of bad-faith bargaining and retaliation for union activity.

OUP USA Guild Stages One-Day Strike in Response to Unfair Labor Charges

MEDIA CONTACTS:
OUP USA Guild / oupusaguildnyc@gmail.com
Luis Espinosa / News Media Guild / 720-261-4578 / lespinosao@icloud.com

WHAT: Members of the Oxford University Press USA Guild (a unit of the News Guild-CWA Local
31222) will stage a one-day strike after filing several Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) charges against the
employer. This strike follows nearly three years of contract negotiations with Oxford University Press.
Speakers will include members of the Guild, News Media Guild President Vin Cherwoo, IAPE 1096
representative Marissa Dadiw, OUP author and labor historian Shannan Clark, and others.

Employees at America’s Largest Healthcare Union 1199SEIU-UHWE Vote to Unionize Themselves by Huge Margin: A Labor History Milestone

Bruce Jett, Washington-Baltimore News Guild Local Representative – (703) 627-4547 – b.corneljett@gmail.com

Washington, DC — Today, 1199SEIU-UHWE In House Staff – from New York to Massachusetts to Florida voted overwhelmingly by 82.3% to join the Washington-Baltimore News Guild (TNG-CWA Local 32035), securing collective bargaining rights for roughly 260 employees at America’s largest healthcare union representing over 450,000 members across the East Coast.

Newsletter: Big Organizing Vote Today!

Teachers and staff at Virginia’s largest school district— Fairfax County – are celebrating a historic union victory. This week, Fairfax County Public School workers overwhelmingly voted in favor of forming a union. Over 27,000 workers are now solely represented by Fairfax Education Unions.

Congratulations to both the educators and the FEU staff – who are NewsGuild members! – for organizing the most successful public sector bargaining campaign won in 25 years!

Eight Tribune Units Ratify Historic First Contract

After five long years of negotiations between Alden Global Capital and a joint bargaining committee, journalists at eight Tribune publications voted overwhelmingly to ratify a historic first contract.

Sightline Media Union Wins Election

Journalists at Defense News, Military Times, Federal Times, and C4SRNet this week voted to form a union the Sightline Media Union with the Washington-Baltimore News Guild Local 32035.

Omaha World-Herald journalists secure new contract

Nebraska journalists at the Omaha World-Herald Guild are celebrating a new two-year contract with Lee Enterprises. The contract – the Guild’s third with the company – was passed unanimously and guarantees multiple wage increases, immediate raises for all union members, new protections from Artificial Intelligence, expanded bereavement definition and more. Journalists in Omaha first unionized in October 2018 and are part of the Denver Newspaper Guild (TNG-CWA Local 37074).

The AI protections include negotiations over any effects of new AI policies or technologies and a requirement that any AI generated content will be clearly labeled. Raises include 3% in each of the two years of the agreement.