Tag: NLRB

A supermajority of staff at The Union for Contemporary Art announces The Union Union 

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OMAHA, NE – Yesterday, workers at The Union for Contemporary Art, an arts and culture nonprofit in Omaha, NE, publicly announced the intention to unionize with The NewsGuild-CWA, joining the Denver Newspaper Guild, Local 37074. A supermajority of staff signed union cards and demanded voluntary recognition at the start of the working day on February 25, 2025.

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Newsletter: Lawsuit confronts Trump attack on NLRB

There has been so much news in the last week and most of it done by Guild members. And there’s just so much news it can feel exhausting. 

I want to highlight the work done by our members at Wired who keep getting scoops while covering DOGE and Elon Musk. According to CNN’s Reliable Sources, WIRED’s reporters have helped lead a surge in subscriptions. Guild members are awesome. Keep doing great work!

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Trump fires first Black woman on NLRB, destroying its decision-making authority

President Trump’s actions in the past week have temporarily paralyzed the National Labor Relations Board. It’s the only federal agency that protects the rights of private sector workers to organize and pursue collective bargaining in the United States. The agency is led by a five member Board that makes final administrative rulings on unfair labor practices and issues make whole remedies for statutory violations. 

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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!
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Color Of Change ordered to reinstate illegally laid off workers and pay back wages after NLRB Ruling

In a monumental decision, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled that Color Of Change violated federal labor law by unlawfully laying off 54 employees without bargaining. Workers first unionized with the Washington-Baltimore News Guild in October 2020.

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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!

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Software Company Learns a Tough Lesson About Union-Busting; Fired Workers Win Big Back-Pay Settlement

Nov. 10, 2018 – A small boutique software company got a tough lesson about union-busting on Nov. 9, when it agreed to shell out $775,000 to 15 programmers the logistics company fired after its developers announced plans to form a union. The 15 former employees of Lanetix comprised the firm’s entire non-management programming staff. Continue reading “Software Company Learns a Tough Lesson About Union-Busting; Fired Workers Win Big Back-Pay Settlement”

‘Employers pay a price for retaliation’

NLRB Files Complaint Against Sarasota Herald-Tribune

(June 7, 2017) There are consequences for companies – like the Sarasota Herald-Tribune – that retaliate against employees who vote to form a union.

That’s the significance of the decision by Region 12 of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to file a formal complaint against the Florida paper, says Tim Schick, administrative director of the NewsGuild-CWA. Continue reading “‘Employers pay a price for retaliation’”