Stop stonewalling, Sherry and @forbes.com!!! Many in the newsroom have gone YEARS without a raise, while Sherry proposes piddly annual increase nowhere close to the inflation rate!!!
Our colleagues were back last weekend in the hometown of
@forbes.com CEO Sherry Phillips to spread the news that she is a union buster who continues to deny our members a fair contract. 👎 @nyguild.bsky.social
Fair contract, NOW! #brynmawr #journalism #50over50 #30under30 #unionstrong #cheapaf #media #union @nyguild.bsky.social #journalismpay #journalismjobs @forbes.com
Sherry's friends and neighbors need to know that the @forbes.com is a union buster.
Stop stonewalling, Sherry and @forbes.com!!! Many in the newsroom have gone YEARS without a raise, while Sherry proposes a 1.5% annual increase, not even close to the inflation rate!!!
At bargaining this month, the @forbes.com management team was in full refusal mode, coming to the table with exactly nothing when the union arrived ready to negotiate with six counters.
Our fearless colleagues braved the snowstorm last weekend to visit the hometown of @forbes.com CEO Sherry Phillips and spread the news that she is a union buster who continues to deny our members a fair contract. 👎
What makes all this worse is @forbes.com’s shrinking staff. Our union has fallen to 80 members as of September 2025, down more than 25% from 108 members in August 2023 and still well below the 93 members in 2021. Why is it shrinking? Stagnant pay doesn’t help. #journalism #journalismstudents
There’s also a persistent gender pay gap. Women earn $7,754 less on average than men (a slight improvement from the $11,280 gap that existed in 2023) and have a median salary that’s $4,480 lower.
This is on @forbes.com CEO Sherry Phillips and CCO Randall Lane.
Big takeaway from our 3rd annual pay study: Racial pay gaps at @forbes.com have worsened. White employees average $95,089, compared with $87,500 for Asian, $74,557 for Hispanic or Latino, and $71,438 for Black employees.
READ THE STUDY HERE 👇
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@forbes.com CEO Sherry Phillips hasn't been to a single bargaining session. Instead, she sends proxies who speak for her and this is the kind of thing that comes of it.
Can we talk about the illogic and short-sightedness of @forbes.com's temp workforce churn?
This is on CEO Sherry Phillips and CCO @randalllane.bsky.social, who have not shown the kind of leadership the newsroom deserves.
#journalism #journalismjobs #cheap #newsroom @nyguild.bsky.social
Wondering why @forbes.com, led by CEO Sherry Phillips and CCO @randalllane.bsky.social, has seen an exodus of talented journalists recently? This right here.
#journalismjobs #journalists
@forbes.com mgt, led by CEO Sherry Phillips and CCO Randall Lane, have proposed 1.25% annual bumps for staff, not even keeping up with inflation--when many in the newsroom go YEARS without a raise. #journalismjobs @nyguild.bsky.social
Our fearless colleagues were outside the
@forbes.com Power Women’s Summit in the rain ☔ this morning with an important gut check.
We handed out this flyer at the 2025 @forbes.com Power Women’s Summit today to bring awareness to the blatant hypocrisy of this event. We want Forbes CEO Sherry Phillips to answer why this event is happening when Forbes has a well-documented history of pay inequity. #journalismjobs
Our 2024 pay study also found a large racial pay gap, with the unit’s white members making nearly $24,000 more, on average, than their black colleagues. That kind of disparity doesn’t just happen by accident.
@forbes.com has a history of pay inequity. It is beyond hypocritical of Forbes to promote itself as a champion of women while paying female staffers nearly $13K less, on avg, than male colleagues in the same roles. www.nyguild.org/front-page-d...
We sent letters to scheduled speakers, asking them to decline to attend in solidarity with us. We want to thank Anita Hill 🏆as she is no longer listed as a speaker. 🎉 We appreciate the support from those who chose not to take part in this farce.
Our fearless colleagues were outside the
@forbes.com Power Women’s Summit in the rain ☔ this morning with an important gut check.
Let's talk about #payinequity. At @Forbes, women make five figures less, on average, than men in the same roles -- and the gap is widening!
Meanwhile, Forbes management says it will offer 1.25% annual increases -- not even keeping up with inflation.
Let's talk about cheapness. 80% of the #newsroom has gone more than 18 months without a raise.
Let's talk about our diminished newsroom. Amid an exodus of talented newsroom staff for greener pastures, Forbes hired only 4 full-time #employees in all of 2024. During the same year, Forbes hired 49 (!!) temps.
In honor of the #Forbes400, the Forbes Union is sharing some numbers of our own. @forbes.com has dragged its capitalist feet for far too long. It's time to give the newsroom a fair contract!! #union #journalismjobs
Stand with the unionized journalists at Forbes.com, who deserve better from Lane. Fair contract NOW!
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HAVE YOU SEEN HIM? We were out searching this past weekend for @randalllane.bsky.social, who we hear likes to watch the horses at Saratoga Racecourse. 🏇
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@forbes.com CEO Sherry Phillips said she wanted a reset at the bargaining table. We are still waiting. Tell Sherry Phillips you stand with the workers and want to see the reset at the bargaining table she said she supports.
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At the bargaining table, @forbes.com management has resisted any of our common-sense proposals that would ensure full-time staff cover the news our readers deserve.
2️⃣takeaways: About 40% of the temps hired by Forbes were part-time; and @forbes.com hired 49 temps in 2024 but only 4 full-time employees 😕, down 90% from the estimated 41 full-time employees hired in 2023.
#journalism
