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ICYMI: We took to the sidewalks (and screens) across the country recently to practice picketing.

We’re ready to fight for a fair contract and remind management that WE are ProPublica.

Join us in our fight. Donate to our strike fund, and read our latest here: www.propublicaguild.org/updates/prac...

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We’re ready to strike! Our members are walking out of @propublica.org’s offices today to practice picketing and show we are serious about winning a fair contract. Support us by signing our petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

We are so proud of our @propublicaguild.org members -- 80% of the unit has signed onto a pledge to do whatever it takes -- including going on strike - to win a fair contract. @propublica.org it's time to do the right thing and agree to a fair contract NOW!

Donate to Support ProPublica Workers in Our Fight for a Fair Contract, organized by Eli Oberman We are the unionized workers at ProPublica, and we’re ready to… Eli Oberman needs your support for Support ProPublica Workers in Our Fight for a Fair Contract

Our comrades at @propublicaguild.org are ready to strike — and will likely lose paychecks for the duration of the work stoppage.

Contribute here to help support their work stoppage — funds raised will go directly to ProPublica workers who can't afford to miss a day’s pay.

Donate to Washington Post 2026 layoff fund, organized by Rachel Siegel On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, The Washington Post laid off hundreds of journalists. We ar… Rachel Siegel needs your support for Washington Post 2026 layoff fund

We at the @postguild.bsky.social are raising money for the hundreds of journalists the Post just laid off. This goes to the people who are hurting, not the Post. Or if you'd rather, go subscribe to an independent journalist. Support is hugely appreciated.

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The ProPublica Guild is Ready to Strike for a Fair Contract — ProPublica Guild The ProPublica Guild is prepared to strike. We have shown up and compromised at the bargaining table for more than two years, but our newsroom’s management has slow-walked negotiations , offering w...

1/ READY TO STRIKE: More than 80% of our members signed a pledge saying we are prepared to strike unless @propublica.org agrees to a fair contract.
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Donate to Support Laid-off Vox Media Workers, organized by Victoria Song On Friday, January 16, 2026, the Vox Media Union received news from management about … Victoria Song needs your support for Support Laid-off Vox Media Workers

We're officially fundraising for laid-off Vox workers. Please share and donate if you can!

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We stand in solidarity with our unionized colleagues of @postguild.bsky.social as they call on Jeff Bezos and @washingtonpost.com management to halt the cuts that would drain their newsroom. #savethepost
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this is an important story, but it's ironic to see it from propublica, where @propublicaguild.org has been fighting for common sense protections against the newsroom's use of AI, and management weirdly won't budge. see here: bsky.app/profile/prop...

Today, Friday, January 16, 2026, the Vox Media Union received news from management about more layoffs at the company: three in-unit workers from PopSugar, two from The Verge, and three from Eater — not including a number of out-of-unit employees — some of whom were on parental and other types of company-approved leave. Beyond this, the company announced that it will no longer have a centralized Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI+) team, redistributing that work across the People team and leadership, and keeping Employee Resource Groups as simply Slack spaces without formal lead roles or any standalone budgets. There is almost no further room to be shocked at these developments, as the company has laid off workers at an average of once per quarter in the last year, but we continue to be disgusted by the fact that leadership seems to have developed no real learning or commitment to workforce sustainability and retention. Those at the top remain safe in their positions while mercilessly cutting off those who work day in and day out (and then some) to make sure that essential, business-critical work is done. Our indispensable colleagues are now in extra vulnerable positions, having to navigate workplace bureaucracy alongside a volatile job market and relentless threats to the integrity of journalism as a whole. This union is proud to have rallied in multiple rounds of contract bargaining to ensure more equitable worker rights and protections in the face of management incompetence. As always, we, along with our Guild reps, will continue to demand that members are treated fairly in the aftermath of layoffs. Details on how you can support laid-off workers at Vox Media will be forthcoming. Please follow the Vox Media Union on Instagram (@voxmediaunion) and Bluesky (@voxunion.bsky.social). Solidarity forever. The Vox Media Union Committees Writers Guild of America East, AFL-CIO

Another year, another round of layoffs at Vox Media. In solidarity with our laid-off colleagues, here is our full statement:

Guild member detained by ICE in Minnesota | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA On Friday, January 9, ICE arrested a member of our union, the Minnesota Newspaper and Communications Guild, as part of Operation Metro Surge.

On Friday, January 9, ICE arrested a member of our union, the Minnesota Newspaper and Communications Guild, as part of Operation Metro Surge.

He has been transferred to a detention facility in Texas, where he is awaiting action on his petition for habeas corpus.

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Tell VTDigger Management: Work with journalists on AI, not without us We, the journalists of VTDigger, have been at the bargaining table for a year — and are close to securing a more equitable and transparent contract. But a critical sticking point remains: artificial i...

Tell VTDigger Management: Work with journalists on AI, not without us. Petition : actionnetwork.org/letters/1f19...

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette owners couldn’t bust the union, so they shut down the paper | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA Post-Gazette to Shut Down 240-Year-Old Paper After SCOTUS Slaps Down Company’s Bid to Evade Court Order.

NEW: Post-Gazette to shut down 240-year-old paper after SCOTUS slaps down company’s bid to evade court order

“Instead of simply following the law, the owners chose to punish local journalists and the city of Pittsburgh,” said Goldstein, president of @pghguild.com

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Hear from our members and those across @newsguild.org who are sounding the alarm about artificial intelligence -- and how you can join our fight. #NewsNotSlop

To the management of America’s nonprofit newsrooms: We are writing to you as the nation’s first-ever caucus of nonprofit newsroom unions, which is composed of the media workers representing journalism outlets across the country. Once again, our industry finds itself at an inflection point, facing the uncertainty of artificial intelligence. Like any new technology, AI can provide a potent new tool to assist us in our work if it is used responsibly, thoughtfully and ethically. However, we have already seen numerous failures in the implementation of AI at for-profit news outlets, where the economic incentive to use AI recklessly has at times degraded the otherwise high-caliber product our colleagues produce. From Axel Springer to Gannett, major for-profit publishers have unveiled flawed AI tools that are hallucinating false news articles or synopses, slowing down journalists’ workflows and otherwise threatening their editorial product. Nonprofit newsrooms can and must do better to uphold the mandates of our mission-driven organizations and ensure readers’ trust in our editorial product. Importantly, we are not calling for a ban on AI. Our message is simple — management must work with us to determine how to best implement this emerging technology and protect journalistic integrity.

To that end, we unequivocally demand that you commit to the following guardrails around AI in current or future collective bargaining agreements and in the implementation of such contracts: AI is rapidly evolving and most of its uses remain to be seen. Our unions will retain the right to bargain over its future implementation. Management will not lay off media workers as a result of implementing AI. Our members will not be disciplined if we decide AI is not the best tool for a job, and our members’ usage of AI tools will not be surveilled. Our outlets will not publish work that is entirely AI-generated, including, but not limited to, text, photos, videos, audio, translations or artwork. When we publish AI-assisted work, it will be clearly labeled as such, will be checked by a human editor and will follow a public ethics policy. Management will not strike deals to use our work — or the work of freelancers or contributors — to train AI without both our consent and our compensation. Many nonprofit newsrooms have already agreed to common-sense AI provisions, and we applaud them. Publications including Grist, the Associated Press, CalMatters/The Markup and the Chicago Reader enshrined contract language that included such guardrails as protecting unit members against being laid off as a result of AI and only implementing new AI tools when the unit consents.

But some nonprofit newsrooms appear set on racing to the bottom. Management at ProPublica, which stands at the forefront of investigative journalism, has repeatedly refused in negotiations with its workers to agree to even the most basic limits on publishing AI-generated content or laying off media workers as a result. At The Marshall Project, the preeminent source for enterprise reporting on the criminal justice system, management has gone many months without responding to their workers’ contract proposal concerning AI. At VTDigger, which provides vital local news to Vermonters, management has offered insulting AI provisions that would allow them to lay off reporters as a result of AI and that include zero guardrails for unionized journalists on how AI impacts their editorial product. And at The Texas Tribune, a distinguished voice covering the Lone Star State, after previously agreeing to AI guardrails, including layoff protections, management recently rejected these provisions in favor of unchecked discretion to roll out AI. Our newsrooms’ readers and small-dollar donors have already expressed their displeasure with the poor decisions leaders of the media industry are making with respect to AI. Our colleagues at for-profit newsrooms are providing cautionary tales. And now, we, the journalists and staff who produce the country’s nonprofit news, demand that you work with us to protect the integrity of our work and ensure AI is used responsibly. The future of journalism depends on it. Respectfully, The unionized journalists and media workers of CalMatters/The Markup, the Central Valley Journalism Collaborative, Chicago Sun-Times, Consumer Reports, EdSource, In These Times, Jacobin, High Country News, The Marshall Project, MinnPost, New York Focus, ProPublica, The Salt Lake Tribune, Spotlight PA, The Texas Tribune, VTDigger and contributors from the National Writers Union's Freelance Solidarity Project

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Read and share our position statement, and sign the NewsGuild-CWA’s petition on AI join us in our fight for #NewsNotSlop!

Stand with NewsGuild-CWA journalists and demand news, not slop! Unionized journalists across North America have come together to sound the alarm: Media companies are implementing artificial intelligence in ways that damage the credibility of the journalism on whic...

The news industry has been critical of federal efforts to prevent the regulation of AI. Now, we’re fighting to ensure that AI is regulated in our newsrooms. Sign the NewsGuild-CWA’s petition on AI here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...

We are publishing an open letter laying out our demands: Workers maintain the power to choose when AI is a useful tool, no layoffs as a result of AI, transparency when AI is used in the newsgathering or writing process and a ban on giving away our work to train AI to replace us.

For-profit media companies have already haphazardly rolled out deeply flawed AI tools that are publishing inaccurate articles and killing jobs in the journalism industry. Nonprofit outlets can and must do better to preserve trust in news.

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Today, unionized nonprofit newsrooms across the country are standing shoulder-to-shoulder to demand that news industry leaders agree to common-sense guardrails around the implementation of artificial intelligence to protect the integrity, quality and accuracy of our journalism.

Workers from journalism to tech and beyond are standing up to fight back against management’s drive to use ai to sloppify our work and degrade our labor. head to www.newsnotslop.org/ to support journalists and workersdecide.tech to get tools to join the fight in your workplace too. #newsnotslop

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Statement from The NewsGuild of New York and Condé United on illegal firing of four union leaders who demanded answers about this week’s layoffs at Teen Vogue, other brands Late Wednesday night, Condé Nast’s VP of Labor Relations notified the Guild that the Company was immediately terminating four Condé United leaders for engaging in the protected concerted activity of gathering in their 1 World Trade Center office to demand answers on this week’s abrupt layoffs at multiple brands including WIRED and the consolidation at Teen Vogue. These egregious terminations are a flagrant breach of the Just Cause terms of our contract and an unprecedented violation of their federally protected rights as union members to participate in a collective action. Through these illegal terminations, Condé Nast management is attempting to intimidate and silence our members' advocacy for the courageous cultural and political journalism of Teen Vogue, as well as diverting attention away from the obvious lack of corporate leadership at the company. Condé United members illegally fired are: Alma Avalle: Writer, digital producer at Bon Appetit; NewsGuild of New York first vice president, trans activist, and union leader Jake Lahut: Wired senior reporter covering the Trump White House Jasper Lo: Senior fact checker at The New Yorker and US Army veteran: outgoing first vice chair of The New Yorker Union Ben Dewey: Videographer at Condé Nast Entertainment, former vice chair of the CNE unit “Management’s attempt at union-busting, using intimidation and grossly illegal tactics to try to suppress protected union activity, will not stand,” said Susan DeCarava, president of The NewsGuild of New York. “The NewsGuild of New York has zero tolerance for bad bosses who harass, target and disrespect our fellow Guild members. We represent nearly 6,000 media workers across the tri-state area and we stand firmly in solidarity, ready to fight for the rights of our members illegally fired from their jobs at …

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

Signal Ohio workers win union recognition from employer | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA Journalists powering Signal Ohio’s nonprofit newsrooms in Akron, Cleveland and Columbus won voluntary recognition of their union.

NEW: Big congrats to journalists at Signal Ohio! After going public & rallying support, they successfully pressured management to voluntarily recognize their union. 💪

We’re so proud & can’t wait to see what they win at the table. (@neohionewsguild.bsky.social)

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Fair Contract Now for ProPublica Guild We, the workers of ProPublica, provide our readers with deeply researched, unbiased news that holds power to account. This work is more important now than ever, but our staff can’t properly contribute...

We can’t produce fearless investigative journalism without job security and a fair contract. After almost two years of bargaining, we need your help.

Show your support for @propublica.org workers by adding your name to our petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

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DAILY NEWS ON THE WALL OF SHAME 🧵: What an ‘honor’ for @nydailynews.com! The Alden Global Capital-owned newspaper has been named one of NYC’s worst employers for union-busting and violating the law. Congrats to the Heath Freeman and management at @NYDailyNews
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A HOME RUN: @yankees.com fans loved our special baseball cards. We passed out hundreds of them at Sunday’s game to spread awareness about how @nydailynews.com owner Alden Global Capital has slashed sports staff since it acquired New York’s Hometown Paper. Watch our video:

Last week, 95 of our union members sent emails to @propublica.org management demanding a fair and transparent disciplinary process. Management hasn't responded and canceled our monthly all-staff meeting, which had been scheduled for that day. We deserve better.
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