Jon Schleuss

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 🎨

Workers at City Bureau Win Union Recognition from Employer | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA City Bureau workers have won voluntary recognition of their union, the City Bureau Workers Guild, TNG-CWA Local 34071.

🎉NEW: Victory at City Bureau!

Workers at @cbworkersguild.bsky.social won voluntary recognition and took a major step to bolster their collective power, and are now gearing up to bargain their first contract.

newsguild.org/workers-at-c...

UPDATE: The Everett NewsGuild is calling on Herald subscribers to support their contract fight as Carpenter Media Group continues to offer low wages and tie meager raises to story quotas. (1/5)

“SPINELESS EDITOR PARK THIS WAY” in chalk on pavement.

A chalked rat eating cheese drawn onto pavement.

A chalked rat eating cheese drawn onto pavement.

“graffiti” chalked onto pavement.

We wanted to welcome @post-gazette.com editor Stan Wischnowski to work today, but unfortunately Stan can’t be bothered to come up with a plan to settle our strike. (The company did accuse of us “graffitiing” the parking lot though…)

See you next time, Stan!

Minutes ago, more than 290(!) Hearst journalists from across the country sent this letter to our bosses, demanding they treat us with the respect and dignity we deserve.

In CT that means dropping spurious appeals and respecting our rights as unionized employees.

Alden Global Capital Makes a Play for The Dallas Morning News

Heath Freeman and his private equity goons are trying to buy yet another paper — with money we've been demanding go towards LIVING WAGES for the employees they already have.

This was the point of our rally last week: the money for a fair contract is there.

STATEMENT from our @fortune.com Union about this week's layoffs: "Throughout our history as a union, Fortune Media management has repeatedly violated our members’ rights, and this latest round of layoffs is no exception" .. nyguild.org/post/stateme...

Striking page designer @johnnysantapup.bsky.social joins the @aflcio.org “It’s Better in a Union” bus tour to talk about what union solidarity means after over 1000 days on strike against @post-gazette.com.

Israel fire kills dozens more aid seekers in Gaza, medics say, as hunger worsens It is one of the highest reported death tolls among repeated recent cases in which people have been killed while looking for aid.

Israel fire kills dozens more aid seekers in Gaza, medics say, as hunger worsens reut.rs/45ke0vp

🧵And here are just some of the powerful comments and messages we've received from subscribers and supporters of the Everett Herald. Sign the petition today! Make sure your voice is heard by Carpenter Media Group. Petition and more info on the campaign in our bio. pnwguild.org/save-pnw-news

Union power, baby!! Thank you to everyone who came out to support 💪

Last week, a federal judge ruled LAPD must stop shooting projectiles at journalists. We’re still pushing our lawsuit to hold DHS agents accountable for shooting 'less lethal' bullets at journalists as well.

This is a coordinated assault on journalism, and it’s not over. #PressFreedom

Legendary street reporter Kerry Burke at our rally yesterday: “[Alden president] Heath Freeman, he listed a mansion in Montauk for $27.5 million. We’re not asking for Montauk mansion money, we’re asking for living wages.”

TODAY: PEN Guild heads to arbitration over POLITICO’s contract-breaking use of AI. This fight could set the standard for how AI is used in newsrooms across the country.

✍️ Sign our petition and help us go into arbitration with full support: bit.ly/PENGuild

🧵Here are just some of the powerful comments and messages we've received from subscribers and supporters of the The Bulletin. Sign the petition today to support this hardworking staff. Make sure your voice is heard by Carpenter! Petition and more info on the campaign at pnwguild.org/save-pnw-news

Buffalo History Museum event postponed after threats of violence made against Buffalo News editorial cartoonist and family 7.10.25 – The Buffalo Newspaper Guild and Buffalo History Museum are postponing a planned happy hour event this evening at the museum in light of serious concerns about public safety and direct threats that have warranted intervention by Buffalo police. The initial event, “Drawing Support for Local Journalism,” was planned more than a month ago to launch the Guild’s public “Protect Local Journalism” campaign at a museum exhibit highlighting the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Adam Zyglis, before the exhibit’s closing. The free, public and nonpartisan event was intended to promote a message about the need to protect this community by safeguarding a strong, local free press amid pressures being faced by news organizations across the country and here in Western New York. However, public criticism of an editorial cartoon about Texas flooding published Tuesday in The Buffalo News, and malicious campaigning for individuals to protest and confront Zyglis at this event, has resulted in a series of death threats against Zyglis and a deluge of other direct threats to hurt him and his family.

We wholly condemn the individuals who have chosen to twist a positive, public event into an attempt to terrorize and silence Zyglis, spread fear among journalists and their supporters, and distort the mission of a free press. Zyglis is an opinion cartoonist who puts his name to every cartoon he draws. While his work is separate and independent from the work of newsroom reporters and editors at The Buffalo News, the Buffalo Newspaper Guild will not stand for physical threats of harm against him and his family. Those who stoop to such cowardly, disgraceful and anonymous acts must be held accountable. The threats made against Zyglis are being forwarded to law enforcement. Out of an abundance of caution and in the interests of public safety, however, we have decided to postpone the Buffalo History Museum happy hour event. It will be rescheduled. We thank the museum leadership and staff for graciously hosting this event and enduring the needless inconvenience recent events have placed upon them. The Buffalo News remains the largest news organization in Western New York. Its staff, including members of the Buffalo Newspaper Guild, are dedicated to providing comprehensive and accurate information to the people who live and work here every day. The spiteful campaign to attack and harm Zyglis represents only one more example of the challenges we face as a community and the need to better communicate and support our vital, public role. We encourage everyone to speak out against these hateful and illegal intimidation tactics and to support the Guild’s greater mission, found at www.ProtectLocalJournalism.com.

Please see our statement about tonight's event at the Buffalo History Museum. Statement also here: buffaloguild.org/wp-content/u...

News Guild President tackles AI, journalist safety and organizing The America’s Work Force Union Podcast is the nation’s premier daily labor program. Jon Schleuss from TNG-CWA joined us on today’s show.

From AI lies at POLITICO to execs dodging labor law at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Guild isn’t backing down.

TNG pres @jschleuss.com joined America’s Work Force to talk arbitration, accountability, and the fights ahead.

awf.labortools.com/listen/news-...

Our fight for workers rights goes to Philly, where we find solidarity on a picket line and hear our case argued in federal court - Pittsburgh Union Progress PHILADELPHIA — Several of us drove to Philadelphia this past weekend so we could spend Monday — our 993rd day on strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — listening to attorneys debate the Newspaper Gui...

✊ Strike chants shared in Philly! ✊

“If you don’t like the smell, blame it on Cherelle,”

"Get up, get down, Pittsburgh is a union town”

@pghguild.com strikers joined @afscme.bsky.social DC 33's strikers yesterday before our court hearing

www.unionprogress.com/2025/07/08/o...

✅ Yes, Snopes is unionizing. Fact-checkers deserve transparency too!

‼️UPDATE‼️

Today, we filed a petition for the National Labor Review Board to monitor an election by City Bureau workers on certifying our union. While we are in communication with City Bureau’s leadership, they still haven’t recognized our union.

Our fight for workers rights goes to Philly, where we find solidarity on a picket line and hear our case argued in federal court - Pittsburgh Union Progress PHILADELPHIA — Several of us drove to Philadelphia this past weekend so we could spend Monday — our 993rd day on strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — listening to attorneys debate the Newspaper Gui...

“We quickly learned the challenges, anxieties and joys of striking are remarkably similar, no matter whether you’re a sanitation worker, a copy editor, a 911 dispatcher or a reporter.” www.unionprogress.com/2025/07/08/o...

Please sign our petition! actionnetwork.org/petitions/ai...

Here at E&E News and Politico, we want AI to work with us journalists, not against us

So PEN Guild is heading into arbitration this week to enforce our contract

Sign here to show your support 🐧

bit.ly/PENGuild

Support the PEN Guild!

We support the PEN Guild's fight against the unethical use of AI! Please sign their petition!

Reporters not robots! @politico.com’s bot gets so many things wrong. I stand with our members @pen-guild.bsky.social fighting for honest, human-produced journalism.

Join us Thursday for Drawing Support for Local Journalism. It's free and open to the public.

You can check out Adam Zyglis' exhibit. The Guild is also
launching a campaign to raise awareness about the
need to protect strong, independent journalism in WNY. www.facebook.com/share/15jHWd...

NEW: Journalists at POLITICO and E&E News are heading to arbitration this week to hold management accountable for violating their contract through reckless AI use.

▶️ Sign their petition to show your support here: bit.ly/PENGuild

Tell POLITICO Management: AI should work with journalists, not against us! Last year, PEN Guild members ratified a groundbreaking first contract that included some of the strongest provisions in the industry around artificial intelligence. These protections not only gave uni...

Sign the petition and show you stand with the workers! actionnetwork.org/petitions/ai...

Proud to represent this group holding management accountable to journalism ethics even as we use new technology