June 1, 2020 – Journalists and other employees of Phoenix New Times won a hard-earned victory Monday, garnering the majority of votes to establish the Voice Media Guild. The group will become part of Media Guild of the West, Local 39213 of The NewsGuild-CWA. More
May 28, 2020 – The news staff of Montana’s largest daily paper, the Billings Gazette, announced the formation of the Montana News Guild on Thursday and asked the publication’s parent company to voluntarily recognize the union. More
May 26, 2020 – The digital journalists at the Seattle Times announced plans Tuesday to unionize and to join their colleagues in the Pacific Northwest local of The NewsGuild-CWA. More than 100 Seattle Times journalists are already members of the union. More
May 26, 2020 – The journalists of The Bradenton Herald won union recognition on Tuesday, voting 6-2 to form the Bradenton Herald NewsGuild. More
May 13, 2020 – The digital employees of People Magazine announced Wednesday that they are seeking voluntary union recognition from the Meredith Corporation, the magazine’s parent company, so they can join their print colleagues at People in the NewsGuild-CWA’s New York local. More
Group toughed out delays to win with more than 80% of the vote
May 12, 2020 – Journalists at the Orlando Sentinel won a resounding victory Tuesday, voting 36-8 to form the Sentinel Guild.The vote will give photographers, reporters, editors, columnists and staff a voice at work and the right to negotiate with Tribune Publishing, the newspaper’s Chicago-based parent company. The Sentinel Guild will become a unit of Local 3108 of The NewsGuild-CWA. More
May 12, 2020 – Members of the Omaha World Herald Guild voted unanimously to ratify their first collective bargaining agreement on May 1, winning a 2 percent on Oct. 1, 2020, a 1 percent raise on April 1, 2022, and an immediate raise for a subset of employees based on new pay scales in the agreement. More
May 11, 2020 – Staffers at Pop-Up Magazine Productions announced May 11 that they are forming a union as part of the Media Guild of the West, a local of The NewsGuild-CWA. They are part of surge in union organizing among news industry workers. More
May 8, 2020 – Workers at Inside Higher Ed won voluntary recognition of their union from the company’s leadership team on May 7. The Inside Higher Ed Guild can now begin negotiations with Inside Higher Ed for a fair contract. More
May 5, 2020 – “Stop lying now and respect journalists’ right to organize and form unions.” More