On Thursday, the BBC apologized to President Trump for the splicing of two parts of a speech Mr. Trump gave in front of the White House on Jan. 6, 2021, hours before a crowd rampaged on Capitol Hill. The BBC said it would not agree to a settlement with Trump, whose attorneys demanded $1 billion in damages threatening a lawsuit against the public broadcaster.
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November 10, 2025
Media Contact: Moira Bulloch, MBulloch@cwa-union.org | 202-434-1168
U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals Orders Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to Restore Workers’ Rights
On Monday, the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to repeal more than five years of worker rights violations and to compensate the workers who were impacted by those violations. The order, which enforces a September 2024 ruling from the National Labor Relations Board, reflects the longstanding demands of Post-Gazette workers. They have been on strike since October 2022. The Post-Gazette must now comply with the Court’s order. Strikers look forward to ending the strike and returning to work.
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Job Type: Full Time
Experience Level: Mid-level
Salary: USD $79,664.26 – $101,086.38 / year
Cause Areas: Job & Workplace, Legal Assistance, Media
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Journalists and media workers have unionized in the United States at a record pace. At the same time news companies have cut jobs, putting the country’s democracy at risk.
The NewsGuild-CWA, a sector of the Communications Workers of America (CWA), seeks a campaign lead to channel the energy of our members, community supporters and policy stakeholders into winning legislative initiatives that support the follow demands:
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Condé Nast illegally fired four Condé United leaders after they confronted the boss to demand answers about abrupt layoffs and the closure of Teen Vogue. These terminations are a blatant act of retaliation and an attempt to silence union journalists holding power to account.
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Last week Business Insider quietly rolled out an artificially intelligent “author” and journalists got loud. The company, which is controlled by Axel Springer in Germany, launched a byline page for “Business Insider AI” with a description that the “byline uses generative AI tools to draft news stories so we can bring readers more information, more quickly.”
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November 5, 2025
Media Contact: Dylan Manshack, dmanshack@cwa-union.org | 202-445-4033
WASHINGTON — Members of the Science News Media Guild, workers who publish Science News and Science News Explores will conduct a 24-hour strike on Wednesday, November 5th. This comes after SNMG members voted to reject the Society’s latest contract proposal.
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NEW YORK – Unionized journalists at the Daily News have reached a tentative agreement with the paper’s owner, Alden Global Capital, for a first contract that includes new, life-changing salary minimums, 6% wage increases over six months and new benefits for part-timers.
Union ratification on the two-year contract deal will be held in the coming days, bringing to a close three years of contentious bargaining with the owner of the nation’s second largest newspaper chain. The union, which represents the tabloid’s print, digital and photo employees, organized as a bargaining unit of The NewsGuild of New York in 2021.
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Workers at Evergreen Collaborative have ratified a first collective bargaining agreement with the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild-CWA, Local 37082 — another win for the growing movement of nonprofit workers organizing for fairness, stability and transparency.
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Workers at Avodah, a national Jewish social justice organization, have ratified their first union contract with the Washington-Baltimore News Guild, securing major wins for equity, stability and worker power.
Avodah develops Jewish leaders for social justice through the Jewish Service Corps, the Justice Fellowship, and other community-based programs across the country. Now, with this first contract, the staff empowering that mission has won strong, enforceable protections that ensure fairness and respect in the workplace.
Three years ago tomorrow the journalists of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh went on an unfair labor practice strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. While they withheld their labor at the paper, they kept telling stories in the Pittsburgh Union Progress. To mark three years on strike, they’re asking each other to share their thoughts about their fight for a fair contract. I wanted to run two profiles in full, which were originally published in the PUP. Other news from around our union follows below.
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