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Workers at The Investigative Journalism Foundation unionize

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 3^rd, 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.

News Media Guild President Vin Cherwoo dies

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.

Federal judge calls potential harms “enormous” from Trump administration’s changes to journalist and student visas

When I walked through the DCA airport at 6 a.m. this morning I saw a woman wearing a shirt that read, “feral for a free press” and I thought it might be a good day. It was.

On Thursday, U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor called out the Trump administration for imposing new restrictions on the duration of visas impacting international journalists and students. The changes impact F, J, and I visas and change how long students or journalists can stay, adding massive barriers if they need to extend their time in the United States.

California Legislature passes NewsGuild-backed local news bill

A bill that would provide California newsrooms with tax credits based on how many journalists they employ was passed this week by California’s Senate and Assembly. The measure, California’s Community NEWS Act, now sits on the desk of Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Two NewsGuild-CWA locals, Media Guild of the West and Pacific Media Workers Guild, were part of a coalition led by Rebuild Local News that has advocated for the bill since it was first introduced in February.

Unionized staff at the New York Times protest in front of the company's offices in NYC.

New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal

With a unanimous vote, the Times Guild Unit Council and The Athletic’s contract action team approved the following statement:

As unionized workers at The New York Times, we are deeply concerned by the company’s potential deal for The Athletic to partner with Kalshi, a company whose prediction markets have been described by New York officials in our reporting as an “illegal operation.”

Any partnership between Kalshi and The Athletic would threaten our journalistic independence across the company. Despite management’s claim that The Athletic and The New York Times are separate business entities, the journalism and the work are intertwined, as any reader can see.

Prediction markets such as Kalshi, which allow users to place bets on real-world events, pose as reliable sources of data but operate without the accountability of independent, fact-based reporting. An investigation by New York’s attorney general found that Kalshi’s prediction market platform is an “illegal, unlicensed gambling operation” that exposes users to “serious personal and financial risk.”

Forbes Union wins first contract four years after unionizing

NEW YORK – Unionized editorial staff at Forbes have ratified their first contract in a deal that sets strong editorial integrity protections, establishes a new $68.5K salary floor, includes gold-standard job security protections, and more.

Forbes Union, which represents close to 90 reporters, photo and video editors, ratified the three-year contract on Sept. 1.

“We refused to accept any deal that didn’t honor the value we bring every day to Forbes,” said Andrea Murphy, unit chair and statistics editor for Forbes. “This contract is the direct result of our union’s perseverance and solidarity.”

Graphic announcing the voluntary recognition of the Denver Legislative Aides

Denver’s legislative workers win voluntary recognition from city

Last week, Legislative Workers of Denver received voluntary recognition by Denver City Council and Denver Mayor Johnston. Legislative Workers of Denver is represented by the Denver Newspaper Guild, a local of The NewsGuild-CWA.

Legislative Workers of Denver is a collective group of part-time and full-time staff who provide specialized, professional-level work to support Denver’s 13 elected city council members.

Graphic with a photo of unionized journalists at the Centre Daily Times.

Centre Daily Times journalists of Central Pennsylvania win first contract in record time

Journalists at the Centre Daily Times (State College, Pa.) have ratified their first collective bargaining agreement with McClatchy in balloting that was tallied Tuesday.

The entire unionization process, from organizing to ratifying, took the community newspaper less than four full months after they organized in May. The agreement, won with support from The NewsGuild of Greater Philadelphia, covers eight workers and boasts significant gains in pay and AI protections over the length of the agreement.

Daily Herald journalists announce formation of the Daily Herald News Guild

Contact: dhnewsguild@gmail.com

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL. In 2007, the Daily Herald conducted layoffs for the first time in its then-135-year history.

Over the last 10 years, employees of the suburban newspaper saw their wages reduced by at least 15% and their work week reduced to 36.5 hours. During that same approximate period, employees experienced eight rounds of buyouts and/or combination buyouts and layoffs, culminating Aug. 10, with the dismissal of 12 Daily Herald employees.

In response, an overwhelming majority of the editorial staff – whose combined experience totals more than 500 years – announced the establishment of the Daily Herald News Guild to secure competitive wages and pay equity, transparency, a strong voice in the future of their newsroom and the ability to continue reporting on the suburban communities the paper has served for more than 150 years.