Last week Washington-Baltimore News Guild members at the United Food and Commercial Workers union ratified a successor collective bargaining agreement that included large raises, increased telework and vacation time increases after workers struck for one day in May and planned for a longer unfair labor practice strike.
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“As a union, our collective bottom line is the workers who prioritize the public interest and the communities they serve.”
NEW YORK – Today Gannett notified workers that it intends to shut down Reviewed, its product review site, effective this November. Gannett’s actions follow months of union-busting by the company with workers engaging in multiple walkouts as they bargained for a first contract.
Reviewed Union members, part of the NewsGuild of New York, overwhelmingly voted to unionize in March 2023 and struck for one week in July to protest bad-faith bargaining including unilateral changes to terms and conditions of employment and the Company’s refusal to bargain over economics. The Guild had previously filed charges over Gannett’s failure to provide requested information needed for bargaining and interference with employees’ rights under the NLRA when it alleged that Gannett made promises of benefits and/or threats of adverse consequences to an employee during a union election. The Reviewed Union is one of more than 50 Gannett bargaining units represented by The NewsGuild-CWA, all of whom have faced similar struggles against a company that prioritizes profit over people.
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We finally have an injunction petition filed in Pittsburgh! It’s a major win in our 22-month-long strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Executive Vice President Marian Needham and I joined our striking family last week after the news broke in a press conference and rally at the Post-Gazette building.
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Yesterday afternoon, Google, California Assembly member Buffy Wicks, California Governor Gavin Newsom and many of California’s publishing lobbies announced “a first-in-the-nation partnership with the State, news publishers, major tech companies and philanthropy, unveiling a pair of multi-year initiatives to provide ongoing financial support to newsrooms across California and launch a National AI Accelerator.”
After two years of advocacy for strong antimonopoly action to start turning around the decline of local newsrooms, we are left almost without words. The publishers who claim to represent our industry are celebrating an opaque deal involving taxpayer funds, a vague AI accelerator project that could very well destroy journalism jobs, and minimal financial commitments from Google to return the wealth this monopoly has stolen from our newsrooms.
Not a single organization representing journalists and news workers agreed to this undemocratic and secretive deal with one of the businesses destroying our industry. Moments ago, the following opposition letter was filed with the California legislature:
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Staffers are organizing for job protections, a voice in the workplace, and better working conditions. They say a union will strengthen the organization by reducing turnover and improving worker morale.
Today, dozens of SEIU Local 32BJ staff publicly announced their campaign to form a staff union, citing their commitment to better serve members, strengthen the organization, and expand the labor movement.
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For immediate release: Aug. 19, 2024
Contact: Jen Sheehan, jen@nyguid.org, 610-573-0740
After nearly two years of bargaining, unionized journalists at the LexisNexis-owned newsroom are ready to walk off the job in September
NEW YORK – Unionized editorial workers at LexisNexis-owned Law360 have put management on notice that they will walk off the job on an unfair labor practice (ULP) strike in September unless there’s real progress in rectifying the harm caused by the company’s unlawful tactics and at the bargaining table.
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PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PG) faces severe consequences for breaking federal labor law after the National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday filed to enjoin the company for its unlawful behavior during and leading to the country’s longest-running strike.
Yesterday, more than 100 reporters, photographers, editors and digital producers in Connecticut’s largest newsroom unionized and formed the Connecticut News Guild. The staff of Hearst Connecticut Media Group went public with about 85% of the workers signing union cards.
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Reporters, photographers, editors and digital producers in Connecticut’s largest newsroom are working to form a union with the NewsGuild-CWA. On August 8, the staff of Hearst Connecticut Media Group went public with their union drive, with more than 80 percent of our 110-person unit having signed union cards. Staff presented Hearst with a mission statement signed by the majority of our unit and asked the company to voluntarily recognize our union.
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For Immediate Release: Aug. 7, 2024
Media Contact: Jen Sheehan, jen@nyguild.org
NEW YORK – The Daily News Union – a unit of The NewsGuild of New York – sent an open letter to NYPD brass on Tuesday, demanding an apology after NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry attempted to physically intimidate the Daily News Police Bureau Chief following a press conference last week.
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