NEW YORK – Unionized staff at investigative nonprofit newsroom ProPublica walked off the job Wednesday in a one-day strike, setting up picket lines outside the company’s New York City headquarters, as well as in Chicago and Washington, D.C.
Continue reading “ON STRIKE: Unionized staff at ProPublica walk off the job”
The NewsGuild of New York-represented workers at the nonprofit newsroom take action after management’s persistent refusal to agree to a fair contract that includes industry-standard “just cause” job security protections and guardrails around the use of AI.
NEW YORK – Unionized staff at one of the nation’s largest nonprofit newsrooms, ProPublica, have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike. Workers have been bargaining for more than two years for a first contract.
Continue reading “Unionized staff at ProPublica vote to strike”
Last month I told you that one of our members was abducted by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. We didn’t share his name at the time in order to protect him and his family. But now his family is public.
Continue reading “Newsletter: ProPublica workers are ready to STRIKE!”
Radio Free Asia may soon be getting its Congressionally-mandated funding [again]. Late Wednesday the full bench of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit lifted a stay that had blocked a preliminary injunction ordering the U.S. Agency for Global Media to distribute Congressionally mandated funds to grantees including Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe and others. We’ve got about 100 members at Radio Free Asia and the vast majority were furloughed in March after President Trump signed an executive order essentially shuttering the agency and several newsrooms.
Continue reading “Newsletter: Susan DeCarava of NewsGuild of New York makes history”