Contact: Corli Jay, (708) 576-1265 | OneTriibeUnited@gmail.com
CHICAGO — The multi-award-winning newsroom staff at The TRiiBE is forming a union and seeking to become a part of the Chicago News Guild, TNG-CWA Local 34071, aligning with the nationwide labor movement to build a more sustainable, equitable and people-centered newsroom that serves Chicago’s Black communities.
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The Washington Post on Wednesday announced a devastating number of layoffs to journalists and other workers, decimating one of the most important newsrooms in the country. Management is targeting more than 300 workers in their layoffs, including illegally attempting to lay off tech workers who are in the process of bargaining a first contract.
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Kathleen Floyd, WBNG Commnications: kfloyd@wbng.org
Education Week Union: edweekunion@gmail.com
BETHESDA, Md. — The unionized 50-member staff of Education Week, a national nonprofit news organization, voted overwhelmingly in December to ratify its first collective bargaining agreement with management, joining a growing list of nonprofit media organizations nationwide with strong union contracts.
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Jan. 9, 2026
Media Contacts: Science News Media Guild – sciencenews.union@gmail.com | Kathleen Floyd, WBNG Communications — kfloyd@wbng.org, (202) 734-7830
WASHINGTON – 85 percent of the 27 members in the Science News Media Guild, workers who publish Science News and Science News Explores, have voted to ratify their first collective bargaining agreement. The historic contract establishes increases in pay, including cost of living raises and equity raises, sick and parental leave and importantly, codifes just-cause protections.
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Last week our strikers in Pittsburgh won big! They received an incredible decision by a three-judge panel at the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals. The judges ordered the company repeal more than five years of worker rights violations and to compensate the workers impacted by violations of federal law.
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The NewsGuild-CWA calls on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to withdraw its proposed rule that would change the I visa program for foreign journalists working in the United States.
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Media contact: sonewsworkersguild@gmail.com
Journalists powering Signal Ohio’s nonprofit newsrooms in Akron, Cleveland and Columbus are coming together to form a union with the Northeast Ohio NewsGuild, Local 34001 of Communications Workers of America.
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Last week brought both celebration and heartbreak for the merged, wall-to-wall union at Calmatters and The Markup Guild. On March 10, after months of tough negotiations, workers ratified a strong first contract that delivers essential protections, benefits and raises for members.
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OAKLAND, CA – The staff of EdSource, the award-winning nonprofit journalism outlet covering education in California, announced today that they are forming a union to maintain their organization’s relentless drive for critical journalism, while building an inclusive and equitable newsroom.
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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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