New Republic Union secures three-year deal with $21k increase in salary floor

NEW YORK – The editorial and publishing staff of The New Republic have ratified a new three-year contract with the magazine, which includes strong no-layoff protections on AI, a more than $20,000 increase in the salary floor and an average of a nearly 20% raise for members over the life of the contract.

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Athletic journalists at New York Times seek recognition as part of newsroom union

For Immediate Release: Jan. 6, 2025

Contact: Jen Sheehan, jen@nyguid.org, 610-573-0740

Times Guild leaders send statement to Times management showing their full support for the Athletic organizing.

NEW YORK –  Editorial staff at The Athletic announced Monday that they have organized with The NewsGuild of New York and are asking The New York Times to recognize them as part of the newsroom union, The Times Guild.

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NewsGuild of New York reaches contract deal with the Atlantic

Three-year agreements for journalists and business and technology workers boost wages by an average of 17%; raise salary floors by up to 55%; and feature strong new job-security measures, including “just cause.”

NEW YORK – Unionized staff at The Atlantic represented by The NewsGuild of New York have reached a tentative agreement with the magazine on three-year contracts for editorial as well as business and technology workers. The deal, if ratified by members, will raise salary floors for the lowest-paid by up to 55%, lift wages by an average of 17% over the life of the contract, and provide important job security as well as guardrails on the use of AI.

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NYT tech workers rally outside of the NYT on election day.

Newsletter: Election Day Strike at the New York Times

Yesterday, I joined our picket line at the New York Times in the largest tech worker strike in U.S. history. The energy was extremely high, culminating in a rally at 1 p.m. in front of the Times. We’ve got 675 colleagues in the New York Times Tech unit, which unionized in March 2022 and has been fighting for a first contract ever since.

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Release: New York Times Tech Guild walks off the job.

For Immediate Release: Nov. 4, 2024
Contact: Jen Sheehan, jen@nyguild.org, 610-573-0740

Tech Guild workers who power all NYT technology – including mobile push alerts, app & website maintenance and the ‘election needle’ – begin ULP strike, threatening to be the first NewsGuild work stoppage to coincide with a presidential election day in 60 years.

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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.

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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.

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