Jan. 25, 2018 – One hundred fifty newsroom employees at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have instituted a byline strike to protest 12 years of pay cuts and additional concessions demanded by family-owned Block Communications, Inc., in contract talks, local Pittsburgh Newspaper Guild President Michael A. Fuoco has announced. Continue reading “Pittsburgh Guild Launches Byline Strike to Protest Contentious Contract Talks”
Jan. 24, 2018 – NewsGuild-CWA members at Jacobin, a Brooklyn-based print and online magazine that offers socialist perspectives on politics and culture, overwhelmingly ratified a first contract between the company and The NewsGuild of New York, the local that represents them. The contract will remain in effect until Dec. 15, 2021. Continue reading “Jacobin Members Ratify First Contract”
Jan. 20, 2018 – The Guild joined the Reporters Committee and 22 media organizations in submitting a brief to the Ninth Circuit Court in support of former journalist Brian Addison, who alleges that Baker City, Ore., and its police chief retaliated against him after he wrote a column critical of the police department. Continue reading “Guild Tells Court: No Retaliation”
Dec. 22, 2017 – Union members at The Daily Beast overwhelmingly ratified a new two-year agreement between the company and The NewsGuild of New York on Dec. 21. Continue reading “NewsGuild of New York Ratifies Two-Year Agreement with The Daily Beast”
Updated Dec. 21, 2017 – The NewsGuild-CWA’s Heywood Broun Award honors great journalism, especially journalism that exposes social injustice. Continue reading “Heywood Broun Award”
Continue reading “CWA-Represented Workers at AT&T to Get $1,000 Bonus”
Dec. 2, 2017 – Statement by CWA President Chris Shelton on the Republican tax plan passed by the U.S. Senate:
Republicans in the U.S. Senate voted to move ahead with their tax plan that hands over billions of dollars to corporations and the 1 percent at the expense of working and middle income families who will be stuck paying the bill. Continue reading “CWA: Senate Republicans Give Billions to Corporations and the Wealthy, at the Expense of Working Families”
Nov. 28, 2017 – Frank J. Santafede, a long-time NewsGuild leader, died on Nov. 15, 2017, following a brief illness. He was 80 years old. Continue reading “Frank Santafede, Long-Time Guild Leader, Dies at 80”
Nov. 21, 2017 – Employees of news organizations owned by Alden Global Capital, a shadowy hedge fund that now controls 200 newspapers across the country, are telling head honchos Randall Smith and Heath Freeman: Stop pillaging our community newspapers to finance your mansion buying sprees!
Sign their petition here.
