About 140 journalists at 11 newsrooms in the Southern California have formed the SCNG Guild, after 64 ballots were counted in support of unionizing, versus 19 against on Friday.
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On Friday, several NewsGuild-CWA members either won or were finalists of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize Awards.
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The unionized workers of Condé Nast protested outside the home of Anna Wintour on Tuesday to call attention to management’s refusal to negotiate in good faith with staffers at The New Yorker, Pitchfork and Ars Technica. They were joined by media workers from other unionized newsrooms, including BuzzFeed, Time and New York magazine.
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NEW YORK – The NewsGuild of New York has filed an Unfair Labor Practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board over union busting actions by Times management aimed at derailing a union organizing campaign among its tech staffers.
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The last few weeks have been marred by serious attacks on democracy, press freedom and journalists at home and abroad.
We’re outraged by the Belarusian government’s use of a military aircraft to ground a civilian plane and arrest a journalist who was a passenger on the flight and by the Israeli government’s intentional bombing of offices housing the Associated Press and Al Jazeera. We’re also deeply disturbed by the arrest of an American journalist in Myanmar and the ongoing crackdown on the press there since a February coup. These brazen incidents reflect a troubling slide toward authoritarianism around the world.
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UPDATE: Journalists at The Atlantic announced July 12 that they officially won union recognition after a “card check” showed “an overwhelming majority of editorial employees” had signed cards signaling support for the union.
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Journalists of The Kansas City Star won voluntary recognition of their union on Wednesday, 23 days after they announced their organizing campaign. The McClatchy Company, which owns The Star, notified newsroom employees of the decision via a video conference call.
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New York – Digital producers on Gannett’s Atlantic Digital Optimization Team (DOT) have formed a union with the NewsGuild of New York, CWA Local 31003 to advocate for themselves, their profession and the communities they serve. These employees work across a five-state region that comprises 37 websites in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland.
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The NewsGuild-CWA condemns in the strongest possible terms the Belarus government’s grounding of a civilian plane and the arrest of journalist Raman Pratasevich, who was a passenger on the flight.
We call for Pratasevich’s immediate release and the release of Sofia Sapega, who was traveling with him.
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Thousands of NewsGuild-CWA members, myself included, were upset by Tribune Publishing’s announcement today that shareholders approved the company’s takeover by Alden Global Capital, a hedge fund known as “the destroyer of newspapers.”
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