Strike | The NewsGuild

The American Newspaper Guild's International Executive Board: A picture just as the 1940 Convention ended. Seated left to right, Harry Martin of Memphis, Agnes Fahy of Newark, Executive Vice President Milton Kaufman, President Donal M. Sullivati, Secretary-Treasurer Victor Pasche, Don Pinkston of Sioux City; back row, George Wilson of San Francisco,

Eighty-five years ago, this woman showed the Guild how to lead

Since Labor Day I’ve been spending a lot of nights reading through our union’s history with our union’s current fights in my mind. In the pages of The Guild Reporter, I’ve been reading about a remarkable woman who was one of the Guild’s first strikers, a local president, then an international vice president. She was fired for her union activity and fought for years to be reinstated. Eighty-five years later, she offers us some sage advice.

The American Newspaper Guild’s first major strike began one year after it was founded.

It started at dawn on Saturday, November 17, 1934 when 42 members at the Newark Ledger walked out.

One of those strikers was Agnes Fahy.

U.S.-based employees of leading French newspaper Le Monde go on strike

Los Angeles – U.S.-based journalists and media workers at Le Monde, the largest national newspaper in France, are beginning a one day unfair labor practice strike Monday. Every worker voted to strike after the Los Angeles-based subsidiary SEM USA Corp. refused to bargain in good faith. Le Monde Union is affiliated with the Media Guild of the West (TNG-CWA Local 39213), which also represents journalists at the Los Angeles Times. The collective action comes after several months of unsuccessful negotiations with the newspaper’s management, which is based in Paris. The company has committed several unfair labor practices during the course of bargaining by failing to provide counterproposals for months during bargaining sessions, setting arbitrary deadlines to conclude negotiations and proposing changes to tentative agreements.

Workers handle a portion of editorial work and contribute to the production of La Matinale, the newspaper’s morning news app and overnight updates for Le Monde’s French and English websites. They also produce content for Réveil Courrier, the morning app from Courrier International, which is distributed from Los Angeles.

ON STRIKE: Unionized staff at ProPublica walk off the job

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.

Unionized staff at ProPublica vote to strike

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.

Newsletter: ProPublica workers are ready 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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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.

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.