The NewsGuild-CWA and National Writers Union join press freedom and human rights advocates around the world in condemning the killing of Al Jazeera correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, cameramen Ibrahim Zaher and Moamen Aliwa, and their assistant Mohammed Noufal in a targeted attack in Gaza City.
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August 1, 2025
Contact: cbworkersguild@gmail.com or call 773-357-7096
City Bureau workers have won voluntary recognition of their union, the City Bureau Workers Guild, TNG-CWA Local 34071.
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July 31, 2025
Media Contact: Dylan Manshack, dmanshack@wbng.org, 202-445-4033
WASHINGTON – Journalists at The Hill, represented by the Washington-Baltimore NewsGuild, have voted 46-1 to ratify their first collective bargaining agreement with Nexstar Media Group, Inc., securing increases in pay, vacation time and family leave.
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CHICAGO, IL — Today, the staff employees of Cook County College Teachers Union (CCCTU) proudly announce that they are forming a union and seeking to be a part of the Chicago NewsGuild, TNG-CWA Local 34071. The dedicated team supports more than 4,000 faculty members across Cook County’s public community colleges.
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More than 290 journalists across the nationwide Hearst Newspapers chain are calling on their bosses to honor existing union contracts and bargain in good faith over new ones.
“We write on behalf of all unionized Hearst Newspapers journalists — from Albany, Austin, Connecticut, Dallas and San Francisco — requesting that you treat us with the respect and dignity we deserve,” the journalists wrote in a letter to management across the company.
The letter outlines specific asks from employees in each of the five unionized Hearst newsrooms.
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Late last week the U.S. House of Representatives voted along party lines to cut $1.1 billion in previously allocated funding for public broadcasting. This rescission effort is part of a coordinated attack on journalists and media workers. Earlier this year Trump began blocking journalists — NewsGuild-CWA members — from attending White House events. His Federal Communications Commission chair has opened investigations into broadcasters including NPR and PBS. And he’s sued several news organizations, including suing the Wall Street Journal just this weekend.
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The frontline workers of Ozone House Youth and Family Services have officially gone public with their campaign to unionize with the Newspaper Guild of Detroit, TNG-CWA Local 34022. Workers now seek voluntary recognition from management.
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July 15, 2025
Media contact: carrie@mediaguildwest.org
Today, the workers of Snopes.com won voluntary recognition of their union, the Snopes Guild.
The Buffalo Newspaper Guild and Buffalo History Museum are postponing a planned happy hour event this evening at the museum in light of serious concerns about public safety and direct threats that have warranted intervention by Buffalo police.
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July 11, 2025
Media Contacts:
Dylan Manshack, Comms, WBNG — dmanshack@wbng.org, 202-445-4033
PEN Guild — politicoeenewsguild@gmail.com
PEN Guild Heads to Arbitration Today Over POLITICO’s AI Violations
WASHINGTON — Unionized journalists at POLITICO and E&E News will head to arbitration today in a consequential legal dispute over artificial intelligence. The hearing will determine whether POLITICO violated key protections around AI use that were secured in the PEN Guild’s first collective bargaining agreement—one of the first union contracts in the media industry to include enforceable rules for AI.
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