Newsletter: We’ve been on strike for 3 years.

Three years ago tomorrow the journalists of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh went on an unfair labor practice strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. While they withheld their labor at the paper, they kept telling stories in the Pittsburgh Union Progress. To mark three years on strike, they’re asking each other to share their thoughts about their fight for a fair contract. I wanted to run two profiles in full, which were originally published in the PUP. Other news from around our union follows below. 

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RELEASE: L.A. Times journalists vote to authorize strike newsroom’s first open-ended strike

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, October 9, 2025

Media Contact: LA Times Guild Officers, unit-council@latguilld.com

LOS ANGELES, CALIF. — An overwhelming majority of Los Angeles Times journalists have voted to authorize their union’s leaders to call a strike if such a step is necessary to reach a new contract. 

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Allegheny County Council Proclamation Highlights Post-Gazette Strikers’ Determination, Importance to Community

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
10/8/2025

Contact: PGHGuild@gmail.com

PITTSBURGH — Early in Tuesday night’s Allegheny County Council meeting, members of council issued a proclamation honoring the resilience of workers on strike from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Loses Final Appeal, Must Restore Health Care to Striking Workers

PITTSBURGH – On Tuesday the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals rejected two attempts by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PG) to evade its obligation to provide editorial workers the health care plan it illegally tore away from members of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh (TNG-CWA Local 38061) in 2020.

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Struck Newspaper Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Closes Allegheny County Print Facility, Pays Out Striking Production Workers

March 13, 2025

Striking Journalists Maintain Digital Picket Lines with Solidarity from Readers and Former Colleagues

PITTSBURGH – Today, the Communications Workers of America (CWA) union announced that striking production and advertising workers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PG) have accepted a buyout offer after the newspaper outsourced production of its print edition to the Butler Eagle, eliminating 31 union jobs in Allegheny County. Journalists and newsroom staff represented by the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh (TNG-CWA Local 38061) remain on strike.

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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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New Yorker Union

NEW YORKER UNION UNANIMOUSLY VOTES YES TO STRIKE  

Members are fighting back against parent company Condé Nast’s efforts to simultaneously control the work they do outside the company, and suppress wages in the face of historic inflation. 

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Southern California journalists authorize first strike against Alden Global Capital

In the first authorization for an open-ended strike ever taken by journalists at a newsroom owned by the secretive Alden Global Capital, the Southern California News Group union today announced its members have voted overwhelmingly in favor of striking. 

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