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NEW YORK - As The New Yorker celebrates its hundredth year in print with a new Netflix documentary, dozens of its staff members — represented by the NewsGuild of New York — lined the sidewalk distributing flyers, which educated fans of the magazine about union-busting happening behind the scenes. 

NEW YORK – Unionized journalists of color at Forbes magazine continue to be paid significantly less – and stay on staff for significantly shorter periods of time –  than their white counterparts, according to a new study by Forbes Union and The NewsGuild of New York. 

NEW YORK – Unionized journalists at Business Insider will hold a rally at 1PM ET Thursday outside company headquarters at One Liberty Plaza to protest management’s planned roll-out of AI-generated news stories. 

The bedrock of democracy is a free press, which includes the right of reporters to ask questions of and report on the government, including law enforcement officials.

Our parent company, the multibillion-dollar Ziff Davis, has announced that it is laying off 23 of our members. This reduction in force impacts over 15% of our bargaining unit and comes just after Ziff Davis executives piled on five more brand acquisitions to the company portfolio in 2025. 

NEW YORK –  Forbes management has increasingly shifted to using short-term, part-time,  temporary employees instead of replacing those who leave with full-timers, a new Forbes Union/NewsGuild of New York study shows. 

When Daily Beast management – led by our new corporate partners Ben Sherwood and Joanna Coles – informed us several weeks ago they were looking to slash staff in our newsroom, our bargaining team went right to work.

We successfully negotiated a robust buyout plan for our members, giving them the chance to decide for themselves if they wanted to leave the company. Twenty-five unit members, or roughly 70 percent of our unit, applied for the buyout. Our members now have a seven-day window to accept the buyout or rescind their application, which will mean the total number of members who choose to leave could change.

We have also won job security for unit members who choose to stay with the Company. Because we expect to exceed $1.5 million in payroll savings through the buyouts, unit members will be protected from any layoffs through Dec. 31, 2024.

We have also struck a tentative two-year collective bargaining agreement with the Company that benefits all of our members, whether they are choosing to take a buyout or staying. We have achieved retroactive pay increases from January 1 for all members. For members who are staying, the contract lifts wages for the lowest earners by at least 4% in 2024 (4.5% in 2025); mid-range earners by 2.5% in 2024 and 3% in 2025; higher-paid earners by 1% in 2024 and 1.5% in 2025; and top-paid workers by .5% in both years.

We have been in the driver's seat of this process since Sherwood and Coles arrived at the Beast. We have battled with Company lawyers, demanded information in the face of uncertainty, and have won the fight for our colleagues to design their own futures. The security and dignity we’ve afforded our colleagues affirms that our work is valuable and empowering. No matter how many members accept the buyout, our work as a Union will continue. Managers come and go, but we, the Daily Beast Union, are here to stay.

From the NYTimes:  More than 100 New York Times workers and their supporters protested outside The Times’s Manhattan headquarters on Tuesday, accusing the company of delaying contract talks.