Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh

BREAKING: We won! Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years. pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...

Stop the bots! The Pioneer Press union is fighting for AI protections in our contract. If you don't want a bot clone of your favorite reporter writing stories under their byline, tell our bosses to keep our coverage human: act.aflcio.org/letters/tell...

Some of our journalists in the newsroom on Oct. 15, 2026:

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On Mexican TV, assassination target of jailed disinformation merchant Fernando Cerimedo explains how he worked with the Bolsonaros and Meta to reduce Lula’s visibility on its platforms: from @padispatch.bsky.social

CWA members at Microsoft-owned Activision Publishing have voted to strike if necessary to win a fair union contract! cwa-union.org/news/release...

Workers in White Plains, New York, won the first union at any of AutoZone’s nearly 7,000 US stores, despite an aggressive anti-union campaign. The next day, the company fired a lead organizer. Then another.

The Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh has secured its final legal victory against Block Communications Inc. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear BCI’s appeal. BCI must now reimburse current and former PG workers for illegal pay and healthcare cuts. Learn more: pittsburghprogress.com/supreme-cour...

Nine years ago we told the Blocks they were going down a bad path. Today they hit the end of the road as the Supreme Court joined a very long list of people who also told them so. Humble appreciation to everyone who worked to hold the Blocks accountable. That family owes us a LOT of money.

If you care about journalism staying human-led, and believe that human journalists — not AI — should be at the center of the work they produce, comment and repost to show your support. #NewsNotSlop #NoSlopInOurShop (7/7)

Paid parental leave is “common sense” to Bobbi Jean Ozanick, a stroke telemetry nurse at Allegheny General Hospital. She was among those who gathered at a rally on Labor Day to advocate for it. Here's what this law would mean for Allegheny County workers: pittsburghprogress.com/seiu-workers...

✊ Non-unionized workers at a Jim Click Nissan Dealership in Tucson, AZ went on strike for 3 days on 8/19/26 📃They struck over an unfair pay schedule and hours worked (and won!) ⬇️ Read more about their fight below❗️ archive.ph/GDfDX

This is inhumane and unacceptable. And how were these workers thanked for enduring these conditions? Many were laid off. This is why we're organizing. A better industry is both possible and must come to pass if our artform and dignity are to survive.

What does Western Pennsylvania high school football mean to you? It all kicks off again on Aug. 28. To get ready, check out contributor Steve Rotstein’s comprehensive preview: pittsburghprogress.com/gridiron-tou...

Last week marked six months on strike for our UAW Local 2192 family at Lorain County Jobs & Family Services in Elyria, Ohio. It's now the longest walkout in Ohio history. How long until county commissioners come to the table with a fair contract offer?

The NewsGuild-CWA is also participating in the suit because of the DHS rule’s restrictions on international media members. They’re limited to admission for 240 days before an extension is required.

NEW: 325 casino dealers for Caeser's in NOLA are unionizing with @uaw.org

Thanks for helping us spread the word! Learn more & sign up for subscriptions and memberships: actionnetwork.org/fundraising/... To preview a sampling of stories, visit PittsburghProgress.com

UPMC Magee-Women’s Hospital nurses are demanding that UPMC follow staffing standards by the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses. Read more to learn how their contract battle not only impacts staff but also the families they support: pittsburghprogress.com/union-nurses...

Friends, familia. I want to share some wild/incredible news: After 9 seasons and nearly 400 episodes, the original Working People podcast feed I started has crossed 1 million downloads! I'm honestly kind of speechless (for once). There's so much I want to say but for now I'll just say this...

The former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers who went on strike for 3+ years, only to have the owners sell the paper and fire most of them, have started their own cooperative news org. Important reporting by @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social

SAG-AFTRA Announces Support for Lawsuits Challenging Merger of Paramount, Warner Bros. Read more: https://ow.ly/6A4l50ZtFSt

Introducing: the Pittsburgh Progress Preview what we’re all about with a sampling of stories and ways you can get involved, now live on our website. Visit our website to sign up for updates and learn about subscription and membership options: pittsburghprogress.com Hard launch coming fall 2026!

ICYMI: Video game and comic book workers score big organizing wins with CWA! cwa-union.org/news/video-g...

Breaking news for those who followed the @pghguild.com strike against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — we are officially launching our cooperatively owned and operated local newsroom! Go follow @pittsburghprogress.bsky.social and check out pittsburghprogress.com to be the first to read our stories. 🗞️🤓

You fought alongside us during our three-year newsroom strike. You believed in us – and trusted us to tell your stories then. Now we’ve created, with community support, a new way to share your stories. Coming July 27: Preview the Pittsburgh Progress Sign up for updates: pittsburghprogress.com

News organizations should periodically stop and look in the mirror and ask themselves “Have we internalized copspeak to the point that our headlines indistinguishable from police department email subject lines?”

The vote was 93-12! “I’m immensely proud of my fellow workers for their hard work and dedication to winning this election,” said Meredith Nini, senior promotions manager at the University of Chicago Press. newsguild.org/university-o...

Last month, we won a Pulitzer Prize for our compassionate coverage of a deadly school shooting. Today, we helped our friends pack up their desks as the Minnesota Star Tribune lays off 15% of its staff. We’ve launched a fundraiser to help our colleagues figure out what’s next:

“I think this is intended to make workers shy away from being vociferous in their opposition to state sponsored violence.”

“It is imperative that we receive appropriate cost-of-living increases each year, especially since our union went for more than a decade with no wage increases at all." - Kerry Clawson, Akron Beacon Journal reporter. Join our fight by signing our petition. actionnetwork.org/petitions/su...

US stadium and hotel workers threaten strikes ‘to make things fair’ during World Cup www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Two unions representing 2,300 workers at Portland Community College went on strike for three weeks in March, in the first-ever community college strike in Oregon, and a rare wall-to-wall strike where both educators and support staff walked out together. labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...

At a bus manufacturing plant in Alabama, longtime worker Stevie Joe Thornton said a manager tried to force workers into overtime daily, despite clear limits in the contract. Thornton walked out during the forced overtime, and later persuaded others to join. 1/2 labornotes.org/2026/05/bus-...

Happy Pride Month from CWA! 🌈

What does it take to unionize factories today, especially in the South? In the last two years, bus manufacturing workers secured first union contracts and a national master agreement across New Flyer facilities in three states @keithbrowerbrown.bsky.social reports: labornotes.org/2026/05/bus-...

The charges against our union brother Kilmar Abrego Garcia have been dismissed after more than a year of pain and separation for him and his family. Immigrant workers deserve the same rights, dignity, and due process as every other worker in this country.

Heartbreaking and heartening to see our situation stated so plainly here, especially because — as the writer notes — the waters have been intentionally, cynically muddied by now two (2) @post-gazette.com ownership groups (cc: @thebaltimorebanner.com). neilcosgrove.substack.com/p/venetoulis...

INBOX: Journalists at the five McClatchy newspapers in Washington and Idaho (the Idaho Statesman, Bellingham Herald, Tri-City Herald, Tacoma News Tribune and The Olympian) are calling a one-day strike today over wages and AI protections. That means no clicking on any links to their sites for today.

The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism — the @thebaltimorebanner.com & new @post-gazette.com owners — have made it clear they're all too eager to run up this tab just like the Amazons, Starbucks, and Delta Airlines of the world.

US employers spend over $1.5 billion annually to fight their workers' unionization efforts www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Hell yeah. Don't let bosses convince you that you don't deserve more. Don't let someone who hoards $100 million tell you that working people don't deserve $100,000. Instead organize and get yours.

LEGAL ACTION: We have filed an unfair labor practice charge against @reuters.com after management cut ties with one of our Reuters Guild members who was part of an organizing effort asking questions about Thomson Reuters' contracts with DHS. More here nyguild.org/post/newsgui...

Actually, democracy dies in H.R.: How mediocre employees help would-be authoritarians maintain power. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...

Since the announcement of our union, Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro have hired Fisher Phillips (a union avoidance firm), and chosen to engage in a daily union-avoidance campaign by sending emails to the Arena team that is spreading misinformation and sowing fear among our colleagues. #uwotc-cwa

NUJ members at BBC Newshour and The World Tonight are on strike today over management's proposed changes to rotas - which effectively add up to an additional 26 office days per year with no extra pay. Live coverage⬇️ www.nuj.org.uk/resource/liv...

United Airlines flight attendants approved a new five-year union contract with average raises of 31%. About 30,000 flight attendants with @afacwa.org will now get their first raise in nearly six years. The contract also means attendants will finally get paid during boarding.

NEW: Workers are turning to unions to rein in harmful workplace AI. NewsGuild members like Anna from @zdcreatorsguild.bsky.social are winning key AI protections in union contracts, as a new @aflcio.org poll shows workers trust unions to lead on AI! ✊

United AFA Flight Attendants voted 82% to ratify their new Contract, with 88.9% participating. United Flight Attendants will receive a 31% average wage increase and boarding pay this summer, and many other improvements. afacwa.org/united-fligh...

As the richest university in the world reels from Epstein scandals & attacks by the Trump administration, over 4,000 Harvard grad student workers go on strike. I speak with three striking members/officers of Harvard Graduate Students Union @uaw.org @therealnews.com therealnews.com/amid-trump-a...