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Everett Herald union workers to hold one-day strike, picket in Everett on June 24

Following the layoff of 10 union workers and two editors, Herald reporters, photographers, editors and designers and community members plan to picket to save jobs

Everett NewsGuild Layoff Picket
9am – 3pm PT Monday, June 24
LOCATION: Starting at the intersection of Colby and Hewitt in downtown
Everett, ending at the intersection of Colby and 41st near the Herald office.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 24, 2022

Kaitlin Gillespie
Executive officer, Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild
(206) 669-3562 │Guild37082@gmail.com

Sydney Jackson
Health reporter, NewsGuild member on the bargaining committee
(714) 791-8432 │ EverettNewsGuild@gmail.com

On Monday, June 24, at 9:00 a.m., instead of clocking into work at The Everett Herald, Everett NewsGuild members, represented by the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild, will participate in a one-day strike and picket in downtown Everett.

After a wave of layoffs Wednesday that cut newsroom staff in half, including 10 of 18 union workers, the Everett NewsGuild is asking new owner Carpenter Media Group to come to the bargaining table and reinstate these jobs.

WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times unions vote no confidence in Chicago Public Media CEO Matt Moog

Contact:
WBEZ SAG-AFTRA Union: yourcpmunion@gmail.com
Chicago Sun-Times Guild: suntimesguild@gmail.com

CHICAGO – The Sun-Times Guild and the SAG-AFTRA units at WBEZ and Vocalo have held votes of no confidence in Matt Moog as Chicago Public Media CEO, Chicago Sun-Times president and a Chicago Sun-Times Media board member. The combined units overwhelmingly voted no confidence in Mr. Moog over the weekend: 86% of members took part in the vote, and 96% of those members – or 114 – voted no confidence.

Group of unions show strong support for California Journalism Preservation Act

Several unions including The NewsGuild-CWA, SAG-AFTRA, NABET-CWA, the National Writers Union and local unions signed onto a letter enthusiastically supporting the California Journalism Preservation Act, Assembly Bill 886.

The legislation would unlock millions of dollars a year to support journalism jobs in the largest state in the U.S. and follows other journalism jobs bills that The NewsGuild-CWA helped pass in New York and Illinois.

Rochester Democrat & Chronicle and Canandaigua Daily Messenger Journalists Win New Contract After Historic 19-Day Strike

New contract addresses decades of wage stagnation and improves job security

Media Contact: Asya Pikovsky, asya.pikovsky@gmail.com, 207-522-2442

ROCHESTER – Unionized journalists at the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle and Canandaigua Daily Messenger unanimously ratified a tentative agreement on a two-year collective bargaining contract today, after two and a half years of bargaining and a 19-day strike that forced Gannett to scramble to find coverage for a series of major news events, including the total solar eclipse in the Rochester area. The strike ended on April 24th, but the parties continued discussions over the past several weeks after journalists filed an Unfair Labor Practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board over allegations of bad-faith bargaining and retaliation for union activity.

OUP USA Guild Stages One-Day Strike in Response to Unfair Labor Charges

MEDIA CONTACTS:
OUP USA Guild / oupusaguildnyc@gmail.com
Luis Espinosa / News Media Guild / 720-261-4578 / lespinosao@icloud.com

WHAT: Members of the Oxford University Press USA Guild (a unit of the News Guild-CWA Local
31222) will stage a one-day strike after filing several Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) charges against the
employer. This strike follows nearly three years of contract negotiations with Oxford University Press.
Speakers will include members of the Guild, News Media Guild President Vin Cherwoo, IAPE 1096
representative Marissa Dadiw, OUP author and labor historian Shannan Clark, and others.

Employees at America’s Largest Healthcare Union 1199SEIU-UHWE Vote to Unionize Themselves by Huge Margin: A Labor History Milestone

Bruce Jett, Washington-Baltimore News Guild Local Representative – (703) 627-4547 – b.corneljett@gmail.com

Washington, DC — Today, 1199SEIU-UHWE In House Staff – from New York to Massachusetts to Florida voted overwhelmingly by 82.3% to join the Washington-Baltimore News Guild (TNG-CWA Local 32035), securing collective bargaining rights for roughly 260 employees at America’s largest healthcare union representing over 450,000 members across the East Coast.

Eight Tribune Units Ratify Historic First Contract

After five long years of negotiations between Alden Global Capital and a joint bargaining committee, journalists at eight Tribune publications voted overwhelmingly to ratify a historic first contract.

Sightline Media Union Wins Election

Journalists at Defense News, Military Times, Federal Times, and C4SRNet this week voted to form a union the Sightline Media Union with the Washington-Baltimore News Guild Local 32035.