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The video image of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette striker Alexandra Wimley appears on a billboard truck outside the PG newsroom on North Shore Drive on the North Shore on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024. The billboard truck was part of an effort to mark the two-year anniversary of the strike. (Steve Mellon/Pittsburgh Union Progress)

Newsletter: This is what two years on strike looks like

This past weekend I joined several dozen other folks supporting our family at the Baltimore Sun during the “Rally for the Soul of the Sun” near the harbor. The Sun was bought by David Smith, executive chairman of Sinclair Broadcast Group, in January.

Hearst guild members stand arm in arm at a picnic outside.

Newsletter: Guild wins show the boss who’s ‘boss’!

We had a powerful union turnout two weeks ago at the Atlantic Union Rally! Guild members and labor allies gathered in D.C., right outside The Atlantic Festival 2024, the company’s highest profile event of the year. Rallygoers demanded that management recognize the value of the work produced by both the newsroom and business sides and agree to a fair contract.

Workers have been fighting for a contract for two years while the company drags its feet. Among the key issues, the our members are pushing for:

Just Cause No Exceptions: A bedrock union protection that ensures due process around discipline.
Work-life balance: Including remote work flexibility
Layoff protections: As well as safeguarding jobs against the misuse of artificial intelligence. Earlier this year The Atlantic entered an opaque deal with OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT.

Over 1,000 supporters have already signed the petition demanding that management provide these basic protections to Atlantic workers. Join them by signing the petition today!

I Support atlantic workers!

Newsletter: UAW joins Law360 picket line

We’re on strike in two locations today: Law360 and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

About 260 members are on strike at Law360, spread across the United States working for the legal news outlet. This week will be the second week of the strike. They went out over unfair labor practices related to the illegal layoffs of their colleagues and unilateral changes to their healthcare plans. Last week they launched their strike publication Outlaw360, and are continuing to report on legal cases and provide updates to their strike. And now, they’ve launched a newsletter!

Newsletter: We’re on strike at Law360!

Our members at Law360 are on an unfair labor practice strike this morning and I’m on the train to rally with them in New York this afternoon.

Management, led by LexisNexis Vice President Teresa Harmon, continues to demand that union members accept paltry raises that fail to seriously address rising costs of living and dramatically increased costs for healthcare. Throughout bargaining management has repeatedly dismissed the impact of inflation on members as irrelevant to negotiations about wages. All while refusing to agree to the union’s reasonable demands that the company remedy its March 2024 unlawful layoff of 26 union-represented workers.

ADD YOUR NAME: Support Law360 Union Journalists On Strike