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STATEMENT: The NewsGuild of New York condemns the violent attack by ICE agents against three journalists covering immigration proceedings in Manhattan and demands that immigration courts take immediate action to prevent similar attacks from happening in the future.

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“The Bureau of Immigration Appeals' decision to issue a final removal order against journalist Mario Guevara after more than 100 days of detention is a miscarriage of justice.” — Katherine Jacobsen, CPJ's U.S., Canada and Caribbean Program Coordinator

NABET-CWA Statement on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Nexstar and Sinclair The National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians–Communications Workers of America (NABET-CWA) released the following statement in response to Nexstar Media Group and Sinclair Broadcast...

Our union stands united with workers that do the real work of facilitating the great American marketplace of ideas. We stand for the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, and the freedom of every worker who chooses to speak truth to power.
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Nexstar and Sinclair should be ashamed of themselves for continuing to cave to Brendan Carr's unconstitutional extortion tactics.

If your corporate interests don't allow you to stand up for the First Amendment, get out of the news business.

ever since microsoft's layoffs in early july, the two zenimax unions have been fighting for impacted employees following the cancellation of the elder scrolls online studio's unannounced mmo. they've won laid-off workers more time (aka more pay), better severance, recall rights, and saved some jobs

Cheers and solidarity from our members and our @nyguild.bsky.social rep at the NYC Labor Day parade!

So honored to show up for the Kickstarter community - they're out here fighting for our entire industry, setting norms that would give us all a chance at a better work environment. Join in the rally, starting at 5!

Happy Labor Day to everyone out there organizing with us. The hours, pay, leave and job protections we have today are a rich history of our solidarity and the past fights we've won. We're still fighting ✊💪

We’ll give you a hint on today’s Wordle, brought to you every day by the @nytguildtech.bsky.social:

Greedy corporate CEOs hate these because they give workers the power to fight for their fair share of the profits THEY create.

_ _ _ _ _ strong! ✊

To NYT Leadership: Look, I don't like getting these emails either... But it's minute 77 of summer Friday

To NYT Leadership: [nytimes/work-life-balance] Removing summer Fridays (PR #8152)

To NYT Leadership: 100 minutes I could have been with my family

To NYT Leadership: 4:04 pm. Summer Fridays not found.

So far, we have lost 12 hours of PTO this month and we will lose 71 hours over the duration of our contract. No announcement was made, no message sent out, and when asked, management simply ignored us. So we brought the issue to their inboxes. Every minute.

To NYT Leadership: it's 2:13. Do you know where my Summer Friday is?

To NYT Leadership: it's 2:26 and my eyes are tired. Wish I had a summer Friday.

To NYT Leadership: It's Friday, Friday, no more getting down on Fridays

To NYT Leadership: it's 3:02 pm. Got that summertime sadness

Management has been quietly clawing back our time off, first by cancelling a few “global days off” they gave us during the pandemic and now by ending a years-long practice of giving us a 2 p.m. release on August Fridays.

I WISH we could claim this, but alas

UNACCEPTABLE: Our members are flooding Slack, demanding answers after we were notified by Condé Nast management that they AGAIN want to lay off union members.

The fight for a better workplace can seem overwhelming and the gains can seem small, but we’re here to celebrate the day-to-day improvements our contracts provide. Anyone else have a win recently?

We fought for clear and achievable PIP (performance improvement plan) language, and for the first time, we are seeing members successfully complete PIPs and return to good standing, instead of being trapped on a path to termination.

We fought to ensure laid-off members have a fast track to be rehired - so far three of our laid-off members have been rehired to other roles in the company.

We fought for mandatory salary floors, so when management posted job openings that didn’t meet those minimums, we were able to quickly correct them, ensuring new hires are paid fairly for their work.

We fought for on-call pay, and our first members are seeing extra compensation in their paychecks.

🎉CONTRACT WINS 💪We’ve been under contract for 8 months now, and we’re seeing what all our hard work has accomplished:

Paying it forward to others in the fight with us just makes sense - proud to stand with @pghguild.com

A group of guild members folding and assembling zines at a table

Four union members hold up zines, smiling.

A zine cover with the text "Maker Weeks 2025" and the tech guild logo with a cartoon scabby rat

An internal page of the zine describing member rights and what to do if you're detained or searched

We’re celebrating solidarity through arts & crafts this week. Each year, our members come together for an internal hackathon called Maker Week and we also - in what’s becoming an annual tradition - create and share handmade zines for our members.

✊Know your rights, get involved, and get crafty 🎨

WE FIXED IT: Obviously our successful rally had an effect on @nydailynews.com management, who felt compelled to “write” an op-ed. Unfortunately it’s full of mischaracterizations and missing key facts. As journalists we couldn’t let that slide, so we got out our red pens…

Standing proudly with @NYDNUnion in their fight for fair wages, benefits and job security. We were fighting the same fight last fall, and will be there again one day - we know what we can accomplish in solidarity ✊💪

Super successful rally today with our @nydnunion.bsky.social members. Our message was clear: Defend The Daily News !

@bradlander.bsky.social Hey Brad, thanks for supporting us at the @nytguildtech.bsky.social last year, and thanks for everything that you’re doing now. Keep it up!

Management is still in denial about our union, violating our contract, causing us to file multiple grievances. We will hold them accountable, give our members as many protections and as much flexibility as possible, and continue our fight for a better workplace.

The first big test of our contract came when management announced needless staff layoffs, ignoring our contract terms.

But we had each other’s backs and organized multiple public actions - we fought to extend termination dates and get our members the severance they were owed.

Management wants us afraid. Disempowered. But we know our value and we will stand together. We will hold management accountable, and fight their contract violations. We will fight for our members and everything they deserve.

Management also failed to offer voluntary buyouts, refused to consider cutting contracting expenses, and is applying an overly narrow definition of seniority.

They claim the layoffs will help us “operate more efficiently,” but they cut from already understaffed departments, removing senior and leadership roles and discarding employees with decades of institutional knowledge.