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RELEASE: Federal judge orders DHS/ICE to halt arrests and use of chemical weapons on Chicago press, peaceful protestors

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 9, 2025

Media Contact: Dylan Manshack, dmanshack@cwa-union.org | (202) 445-4033

CHICAGO – Today, a federal judge barred Department of Homeland Security agents, such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs & Border Patrol, from using force against journalists and protesters who don’t pose a threat to agents. A full copy of the lawsuit and restraining order can be found here.

RELEASE: L.A. Times journalists vote to authorize strike newsroom’s first open-ended strike

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, October 9, 2025

Media Contact: LA Times Guild Officers, unit-council@latguilld.com

LOS ANGELES, CALIF. — An overwhelming majority of Los Angeles Times journalists have voted to authorize their union’s leaders to call a strike if such a step is necessary to reach a new contract.

Allegheny County Council Proclamation Highlights Post-Gazette Strikers’ Determination, Importance to Community

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
10/8/2025

Contact: PGHGuild@gmail.com

PITTSBURGH — Early in Tuesday night’s Allegheny County Council meeting, members of council issued a proclamation honoring the resilience of workers on strike from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Newsletter: Chicago Guild sues ICE

Violence against journalists continues to be committed by the United States government.

The Chicago Guild joined others in suing Immigration and Customs Enforcement for attacking journalists. The suit was filed yesterday and comes after repeated clashes between protestors and ICE agents at a facility in Broadview. Federal agents targeted several Guild members while reporting on the clashes despite being visibly identified as members of the press.

Chicago News Guild sues ICE over attacks on journalists at Broadview protests

Chicago NewsGuild joins federal lawsuit to stop ICE and DHS agents from targeting reporters at Broadview protests. The Guild release the following statement:

Guild members each day do the hard and sometimes dangerous work of reporting the news in our region. The past few weeks, the repeated clashes between protestors and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at the ICE facility in Broadview has been one of the top headlines, and our members are the ones doing the reporting.

RELEASE: Maine Trust for Local News workers expand union rights

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
September 30, 2025

Media contact:
Megan Gray, President, News Guild of Maine
574-807-2843 | meganedoyle13@gmail.com

Yesterday, workers at the statewide Maine Trust for Local News won an election at the National Labor Relations Board to welcome nearly 50 employees into their union.

Everett Herald journalists ratify first contract

Journalists at the Everett Herald ratified a historic first contract, winning stronger job protections, fair raises and improved working conditions.

RELEASE: Guild condemns Cascade PBS layoffs and newsroom shutdown

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September 26, 2025

Contact: Courtney Scott, executiveofficer@pnwguild.org | (206) 669-3562

On Monday, September 22, Cascade PBS announced its decision to eliminate its written news and investigations operation which will result in the layoff of nine union journalists of the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild along with an early-career fellow and four editors.

Signal Ohio workers win union recognition from employer

Contact: SONWG@gmail.com

Journalists powering Signal Ohio’s nonprofit newsrooms in Akron, Cleveland and Columbus won voluntary recognition of their union, making the Signal Ohio News Workers Guild an official member of the Northeast Ohio NewsGuild, Local 34001 of Communications Workers of America.

Newsletter: Journalists on visas are under attack

An injunction now bars the Trump administration from assaulting journalists in Southern California. On September 10 we won a preliminary injunction blocking the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which includes the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs & Border Protection, from brutalizing journalists, legal observers and protestors.