03/26/2021
On Thursday, we were notified via email that TNR planned to relocate the “majority” of its editorial staffers from New York City to Washington D.C. Simultaneously, a New York Times article announcing this shift appeared.
Read more … From The New Republic Union | Statement on New Editor, Editorial Operations
03/26/2021
Tribune Publishing won’t recognize our union, but it also won’t pay us the bonuses it promised to “non-union” employees -- and the company is using the union election process it forced us into as an excuse to not give us those checks.
Read more … From The Daily News Union | Statement on Promised then Rescinded Bonuses
03/26/2021
Guild members at The New Yorker, Pitchfork, and Ars Technica announced today that they have overwhelmingly approved—with 98% support—a strike in each of their respective units should contract talks break down further with the brands and their parent company, Condé Nast. This historic authorization vote, with more than 93% of Guild-represented workers at Condé participating, comes after years of slow and contentious negotiations for first contracts at each of the publications. The workers at The New Yorker, Pitchfork, and Ars Technica are unwavering in their commitment to bringing transparency, equity, and accountability to their workplaces and to Condé Nast at large.
03/26/2021
From The Daily Beast | More than a hundred employees at The New Yorker, Pitchfork, and Ars Technica are prepped to strike amid an ongoing labor battle.
03/26/2021
The members of the New Yorker Union, Pitchfork Union, and Ars Technica Union have overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike, with 98% support across our three bargaining u.nits. If and when our bargaining committees call for it, we will walk off the job to demand the contracts we deserve.
Read more … A Letter From The New Yorker, Pitchfork, and Ars Technica Unions
03/16/2021
We’ve been negotiating with management for nearly a year and a half with very little movement toward a fair contract that protects our workers. Fortune management has been subverting the bargaining process, trying to work around the union, and acting illegally for that entire stretch.
03/16/2021
This morning (3/16/21), the editorial employees comprising the Fortune Union are walking off the job at 9 a.m. for one day and holding an informal press conference and rally at 10:30 a.m. to expose management’s bad-faith in negotiations with the NewsGuild of New York, the worker’s bargaining representative, and to demand a fair, equitable contract. As a result of management’s egregious behavior, the Fortune Union has filed six Labor Board charges against management.
Read more … Media Advisory: Fortune Magazine Union Members File Board Charges and Walk Out
03/16/2021
From Business Insider | Staffers at Fortune are staging a day-long work stoppage on Tuesday in the latest labor flare-up between digital media unions and publishers.
03/03/2021
U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker, and U.S. Representatives Bill Pascrell, Jr. (N.J.-09), Josh Gottheimer (N.J.-05), Mikie Sherrill (N.J.-11) and Tom Malinowski (N.J.-07) today sent a letter to Gannett CEO Michael Reed standing up for local journalism and urging the company to cease efforts to interfere with the right of employees to unionize at the Record and NorthJersey.com, Daily Record and New Jersey Herald.
02/11/2021
The NewsGuild of New York, CWA Local 31003, with a membership as diverse as our city, seeks an experienced, New York City-based Local Representative with bargaining and mobilizing skills, ready to represent members working in a rapidly changing media industry. Applicants should be ready to hit the ground running to lead contract campaigns and bargaining tables, to advocate for, communicate with, and organize news industry employees in America’s media capital.
