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09/11/2024

NEW YORK –  The unionized editorial staff of Forbes, represented by The NewsGuild of New York, has overwhelmingly passed a vote of no confidence against CEO Mike Federle and Chief Content Officer Randall Lane, charging them with failing to maintain essential standards of editorial integrity, allowing pay inequity and erosion of staff to persist and refusing to be part of productive contract negotiations.

09/10/2024

NEW YORK – The Times Tech Guild – the union that includes software engineers, product managers, data analysts, project managers and designers at the New York Times – has voted to authorize a strike just as the presidential election session shifts into high gear. 

09/10/2024

NEW YORK – Unionized editorial workers at LexisNexis-owned Law360 began an unfair labor practice (ULP) strike at 12:01 a.m. today, after giving management every opportunity to bargain a fair contract and negotiate remedies for their unlawful actions.

08/26/2024

Today Gannett notified workers that it intends to shut down Reviewed, its product review site, effective this November. Gannett’s actions follow months of union-busting by the company with workers engaging in multiple walkouts as they bargained for a first contract. 

08/21/2024

On Tuesday, we learned that Condé Nast had entered into a multi-year partnership with OpenAI. The email, from CEO Roger Lynch, offered very few details other than to assert that OpenAI has "been transparent and willing to productively work with publishers like us so that the public can receive reliable information and news through their platforms."

08/19/2024

NEW YORK – Unionized editorial workers at LexisNexis-owned Law360 have put management on notice that they will walk off the job on an unfair labor practice (ULP) strike in September unless there’s real progress in rectifying the harm caused by the company’s unlawful tactics and at the bargaining table.

08/16/2024

NEW YORK – Bill Zoda – a highly skilled contract negotiator who most recently represented NY Guild members at the New York Times, Wirecutter, Time Magazine, S&P and the New Yorker Union – has been promoted as the NY Guild’s Director of Collective Bargaining. 

08/13/2024

NEW YORK – The NewsGuild of New York condemns in the strongest possible terms the continued killing, harassment and intimidation of journalists in Gaza covering the Israel-Hamas war, and calls for an immediate halt to these practices.

08/01/2024

NEW YORK—Unionized journalists at The Atlantic, led by a group of the magazine’s most prominent writers, presented a letter to editorial management on Thursday demanding that the company put their journalism first when it comes to AI.

07/29/2024

The NewsGuild of New York—CWA Local 31003, with a membership as diverse as our city, seeks experienced, New York City-based Local Representatives with organizing, bargaining, and strike experience who is ready to work alongside and coach media workers as we collectively build power in a rapidly changing industry.