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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...

Forbes Power Women's Summit speakers 2025.

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

Stop the union-busting at Forbes now! We, the Forbes Union, are a union of more than 100 reporters, editors, producers, and designers, who work hard every day to tell impactful stories about society’s most powerful and important people. ...

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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Stop the union-busting at Forbes now! We, the Forbes Union, are a union of more than 100 reporters, editors, producers, and designers, who work hard every day to tell impactful stories about society’s most powerful and important people. ...

@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

Forbes Union: Temp Study: Forbes Has a Labor Problem

We crunched the data provided to us by @forbes.com management - and found that management has increasingly shifted to using short-term, part-time, temporary employees instead of replacing those who leave with full-timers.

Forbes Union: Temp Study: Forbes Has a Labor Problem

Forbes Union: Forbes Management is Union Busting

NEW STUDY: We sent @forbes.com CEO Sherry Phillips an invite today to lunch – to discuss our new study about the labor problem at Forbes Union.

So sorry!

Despite @forbes.com CCO @randalllane.bsky.social's claim to want the best newsroom in media, he & CEO Sherry Phillips are keeping salaries below industry norms. Is it any wonder we've seen an exodus of staffers?

We're back at the bargaining table after 3 YEARS of feet-dragging from @forbes.com, 3 YEARS of paying $$$$ to Forbes' white-shoe lawyer, 3 YEARS of hissy fits and juvenile name-calling. We are still waiting for the reset Forbes CEO Sherry Phillips promised.

@forbes.com CEO Sherry Phillips promised us a reset. This is what we're getting at the bargaining table. #journalism

The @forbes.com newsroom, the cornerstone of the brand, has shrunk significantly under @randalllane.bsky.social's lack of leadership. A win for our competitors. #media

Repeat it with us: Diversity is strength. We want a contract where diversity and inclusion at @forbes.com aren't just words. #unionstrong

Yes, @Forbes has a major retention problem. In recent years, there's been an exodus of talented staff who see greener pastures at competitors where they can get a fair shake. It's beyond time for some transparency! #unionstrong

Right now, there is zero job security at @Forbes, and management likes it that way. ("At management's discretion" is their favorite phrase.) We need a contract that gives normal protections like guaranteed severance and mandatory heads-up before layoffs. #unionstrong

The good news: @forbes.com ramped up the number of bargaining sessions in 2025.
The bad news: We've seen no change in tone at the bargaining table, just the same old, same old. Very disappointing.

WE CALL B.S.: We are hearing of members being told we are standing in the way of raises. Completely false! @forbes.com mgt, which continues to drag out bargaining, can offer raises now. We will keep fighting. @randalllane.bsky.social

How about dropping into a bargaining session, Sherry Phillips? We’d love to see you there.