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Verso Guild members ratify first contract

Washington-Baltimore News Guild members at Verso Books in the U.S. ratified their first contract on Wednesday, 16 months after they began negotiating. The decision was unanimous, with all 14 members voting in favor. That’s a marked turnaround from August, when workers rejected management’s proposed contract by a vote of 14-1. “We had been negotiating for …

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SPLC Guild Wins First Contract

After more than a year and a half of collective bargaining, staffers at the Southern Poverty Law Center have ratified their first collective bargaining agreement. The bargaining unit encompasses staffers across 11 SPLC offices in five states (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi) and Washington, D.C. When they won recognition of their union, Danielle Davis, an …

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The Hill’s newsroom employees announce union campaign with WBNG

Journalists at The Hill announced Wednesday that they are forming a union. Newsroom employees filed for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board, but asked management and the publication’s new parent company to voluntarily recognize The Hill Guild. A supermajority of the roughly 80 reporters, designers, copy editors, producers and social media curators …

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NewsGuild: Abortion access is a health care right

Politico reported on May 2 that the Supreme Court of the United States has voted to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, citing a draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito and circulated inside the court. The court confirmed the authenticity of the draft opinion the following day.  The NewsGuild-CWA unequivocally supports …

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