Unionized workers at Cobalt, Colorado’s largest abortion fund, have ratified their first-ever contract. It includes expanded benefits, legal protection in the face of national political uncertainty, and post-ratification wage increases that range from 6-12%.
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Unionized journalists at The Salt Lake Tribune recently ratified their first-ever contract. 93% of bargaining unit members voted to ratify in a unanimous affirmation of their new working conditions and benefits.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Dec. 10, 2025
Media Contact: Bob Vitale, C: 614-805-6114, dispatchnewsguild@gmail.com
Columbus, Ohio — Newsroom employees at The Columbus Dispatch and Newark Advocate today announced they are forming the Dispatch News Guild to address fair pay and preserve local journalism jobs.
Unionized journalists at the Los Angeles Times voted 156 to 23 on Tuesday to ratify a three-year contract deal with Media Guild of the West (The NewsGuild-CWA 39213) — a hard-fought resolution to more than three years of contentious negotiations with Times management.
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December 2, 2025
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Kathleen Floyd, Comms, WBNG — kfloyd@wbng.org, (202) 734-7830
WASHINGTON — Today, workers at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) announced the formation of their union, “EDF Together,” which will represent nearly 500 workers. They are proud to have submitted a supermajority of union authorization cards from union-eligible staff and hope to receive voluntary recognition from EDF’s Executive Management Team, following in the footsteps of close partners Natural Resources Defense Council Union, League of Conservation Voters Union, and thousands of other workers represented by the Washington-Baltimore News Guild.
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For Immediate Release: Dec.1, 2025
Media Contact: Jen Sheehan, jen@nyguild.org; 610-573-0740
On the heels of a groundbreaking arbitration win at POLITICO, NewsGuild-CWA members launch a national campaign and a week of action on AI.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Unionized journalists across the country have become increasingly concerned about artificial intelligence, especially how the evolving technology is eroding the public’s trust in the news.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
December 1, 2025
Media Contacts:
Kathleen Floyd, Comms, WBNG — kfloyd@wbng.org, (202) 734-7830
PEN Guild — politicoeenewsguild@gmail.com
WASHINGTON — Unionized journalists at POLITICO and E&E News (PEN Guild) announced today a major victory in their arbitration case against POLITICO management over the company’s unilateral introduction of artificial intelligence tools that bypassed negotiated safeguards and undermined core journalistic standards.
In a detailed decision, the arbitrator found POLITICO violated the collective bargaining agreement when it launched two AI-driven products — a “Live Summaries” feature used during the 2024 Democratic National Convention and Vice Presidential Debate, and the Capitol AI Report-Builder tool for POLITICO Pro subscribers — without providing required notice, bargaining, or human oversight, as required by the contract.
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Today marks an emotional and long-awaited milestone for the labor movement in Pittsburgh. Post-Gazette journalists have officially returned to the newsroom after more than three years on strike.
Last week our strikers in Pittsburgh won big! They received an incredible decision by a three-judge panel at the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals. The judges ordered the company repeal more than five years of worker rights violations and to compensate the workers impacted by violations of federal law.
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Having won all their October of 2022 strike demands — thru the courts — strikers ready to get back to PG
PITTSBURGH — Striking workers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PG) sent their return to work offer to the company on Monday, heralding the end of the longest-running strike in the United States. They offered to return to work at the PG’s North Shore office on the morning of Monday, Nov. 24, and asked the company to inform strikers if they are being asked to report at a different time or place.
One week ago, the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the PG to restore the terms of the 2014-17 contract that the paper illegally, unilaterally discarded in July of 2020, including the health care plan, some workers’ paid time off, the short-term disability plan, and the right to fight discipline from managers, among other collectively bargained workplace rights. The health care plan the company imposed effectively cut workers’ wages by thousands of dollars each year as the PG dumped costs onto its employees.
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