10/03/2024
NEW YORK – The New Yorker Union has unanimously voted to authorize a strike less than a month ahead of the magazine’s most star-studded and high-profile event.
Read more … NEW YORKER UNION UNANIMOUSLY VOTES YES TO STRIKE
09/20/2024
NEW YORK – The leaders of The NY Times Guild have passed a resolution of support for the Times Tech Guild’s plans to go on strike.
Read more … Leadership of the New York Times Guild backs Tech Guild’s strike authorization
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.
Read more … ULP STRIKE ALERT: Law360 Union walks off the job
11/14/2019
Today, TIME voluntarily recognized the editorial employees of TIME for Kids who requested to join their colleagues represented by the NewsGuild of New York. The NewsGuild and TIME have had a longstanding and productive relationship.
Read more … Joint Statement from The NewsGuild of New York and TIME on recognition of TIME for Kids
10/03/2019
Today we were anticipating a mass layoff at Sports Illustrated. Instead, minutes before scheduled “transition meetings” were set to begin, Meredith management cancelled and hosted an impromptu all-hands gathering, where SI staffers were given no information about their futures.
Read more … NewsGuild of New York Statement on Chaos at Sports Illustrated
09/25/2019
Last night at 9:11 p.m., New York Media management informed our members with no prior notice that the company has merged with Vox Media. Our members deserved far greater respect, especially as we are currently actively bargaining for a first contract. While we support any endeavor that protects the future of these publications, our job is to hold management to their word that this merger will only strengthen these publications and the careers of our members.
Read more … Statement from NYGuild on Vox Media Acquisition of New York Media
09/20/2019
The New York Times abruptly shut down the NYT en Español operation on Tuesday. Most of the eight-person team in Mexico City received absolutely no advance notice.
Read more … Statement from NY NewsGuild President Grant Glickson on NYT en Español Layoffs
06/11/2019
Today, TIME voluntarily recognized digital editorial staffers who requested to join their print colleagues currently represented by the NewsGuild of New York. A majority of TIME digital employees decided to be represented by the NewsGuild. This recognition reflects the evolution of our editorial team of print and digital employees, which now operates as one group. Guild-represented employees are excited to join together and to help TIME flourish.
Read more … Joint Statement from NewsGuild of New York and Time on Voluntary Recognition
05/28/2019
Meredith Corporation yesterday announced the sale of Sports Illustrated—a longstanding NewsGuild of New York-represented publication—to Authentic Brands Group, a global brand development, marketing and entertainment company.
Read more … NewsGuild of New York Statement on Sale of Sports Illustrated
05/21/2019
We are happy to announce that today a card check certification was conducted at the offices of Condé Nast, officially recognizing the NewsGuild of New York as the bargaining representative of the employees of Pitchfork and Ars Technica.
03/11/2019
New York Magazine announced today that it will be implementing a “restructuring” and staff reduction, which impacts eight full-time and 16 part-time NewsGuild bargaining unit members.
Read more … NewsGuild of New York Statement on Layoffs at New York Magazine
01/17/2019
Management of The Forward, a long-standing union publication, has announced that in addition to ceasing its 121-year-old print edition, they will lay off 40 percent of editorial employees to become a more “digitally-focused” publication.
Read more … NewsGuild of New York Statement on Layoffs at The Forward
12/18/2018
Last night, we unanimously (168-0!) ratified a remarkable first contract that fiercely protects and improves the working conditions of everyone in the newsroom at Law360.
Read more … Law360 Union Statement on Unanimous Contract Ratification
06/17/2024
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.
Read more … STATEMENT from the Daily Beast Union regarding voluntary staff buyouts
11/17/2021
From Poynter: Workers at the three New York Times unions — the Times Guild, Times Tech Guild, and Wirecutter Union — rallied outside the Times building Tuesday in protest of what they say are anti-union tactics by company management.
11/16/2021
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.
Read more … New York Times employees protest over union fights.
11/08/2021
From the NYTimes: Union members at Wirecutter, a product review website owned by The New York Times Company, said on Monday that they were prepared to stop work during the busy shopping period around Black Friday if a deal for a contract was not reached.
Read more … Wirecutter workers threaten a walkout during a peak shopping week over contract delays.
08/31/2021
From The Daily Beast: Staffers at the popular business publication Fortune planned to strike outside the magazine’s first in-person conference in years, ultimately forcing its postponement.
