July 31, 2019 – Newsroom employees at Crosscut and KCTS 9, part of Cascade Public Media in Seattle, voted 16-0 to unionize with the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild, Local 37082 of The NewsGuild-CWA.
Workers said they organized to fight for pay that keeps up with the cost of living, to preserve quality, in-depth journalism, and to push back against a troubling increased focus on click goals and quotas. Continue reading “Crosscut Workers Vote Unanimously to Unionize”
July 24, 2019 – More than five months after announcing their union drive, the journalists of BuzzFeed News officially won recognition of their union, the NewsGuild of New York has announced. A neutral party verified that a majority of staffers elected to be represented by The NewsGuild-CWA after reviewing cards signed by more than 90 percent of eligible employees. Continue reading “Finally! BuzzFeed News Union wins voluntary recognition”
July 8, 2019 – Journalists of Crosscut, a nonprofit news site covering the Northwest, and KCTS 9, Seattle’s local PBS affiliate, have signed onto a union organizing effort in overwhelming numbers. Continue reading “Journalists of Crosscut, KCTS 9 announce union organizing campaign”
July 2, 2019 – The Wirecutter Union has won voluntary recognition from management, organizers announced on July 1. Continue reading “Wirecutter workers win union recognition”
June 18, 2019 – Employees of BuzzFeed News walked out of their newsroom on June 17 and held a spirited rally outside the publication’s New York office to demand union recognition. Continue reading “BuzzFeed News Employees Walk Out, Demand Union Recognition”
June 10, 2019 – Digital employees of TIME won voluntary union recognition June 7, ending the “digital divide” the company’s former owners implemented to keep digital employees out of the bargaining unit. Continue reading “TIME’s digital employees win voluntary union recognition”
May 22, 2019 – In ballots counted Tuesday, the digital staff at Fortune magazine voted 20-3 to join the NewsGuild-CWA, joining their print colleagues in the union’s New York local. The group became the fourth digital unit to join the NewsGuild of New York on May 21, following workers at Ars Technica, Pitchfork and Quartz. Continue reading “Fortune Makes Four”
May 22, 2019 – The NewsGuild-CWA had a banner day on May 21, when three digital publications organized by the New York Local won voluntary union recognition.
Workers at Ars Technica, Pitchfork and Quartz are the latest to join the wave of journalists who are unionizing. Continue reading “Workers at Three Digital Publications Win Union Recognition”
April 25, 2019 – Digital employees of TIME requested voluntary union recognition April 25, seeking union protection and equity with the magazine’s print employees. Although the publication has been represented by the New York local of The NewsGuild-CWA for nearly 80 years, the former owners of Time Inc. maintained an antiquated divide to keep employees they identified as “digital” out of the bargaining unit. Continue reading “TIME digital staff requests voluntary union recognition; seeks to end ‘digital divide’”
April 2, 2019 – Nearly 90 percent of newsroom employees at Wirecutter, a product-review-and-recommendation site published by the New York Times Company, announced April 2 that they are seeking to join the New York Local of The NewsGuild-CWA. Continue reading “‘Wirecutter’ workers announce union drive, seek recognition”
