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UPMC Magee-Women’s Hospital nurses are demanding that UPMC follow staffing standards by the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses. Read more to learn how their contract battle not only impacts staff but also the families they support: pittsburghprogress.com/union-nurses...

Union nurses, lactation consultants at Magee struggle with staffing shortages amid contract battle with UPMC

Delivering a baby can go as well as possible, said Liana Montes, and yet it can still be traumatic for someone giving birth. That’s why the labor and delivery nurse at UPMC Magee-Women’s Hospital sai...

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Friends, familia. I want to share some wild/incredible news: After 9 seasons and nearly 400 episodes, the original Working People podcast feed I started has crossed 1 million downloads! I'm honestly kind of speechless (for once). There's so much I want to say but for now I'll just say this...

The former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers who went on strike for 3+ years, only to have the owners sell the paper and fire most of them, have started their own cooperative news org. Important reporting by @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social

Corporate profiteers destroyed journalism. Worker-owned media can save it.

Former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers went on strike for over three years and won. Then, the owners sold the paper and most strikers lost their jobs. Now, they’ve launched “a cooperative news organiz...

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SAG-AFTRA Announces Support for Lawsuits Challenging Merger of Paramount, Warner Bros. Read more: https://ow.ly/6A4l50ZtFSt

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ICYMI: Video game and comic book workers score big organizing wins with CWA! cwa-union.org/news/video-g...

Video Game and Comic Book Workers Score Big Organizing Wins

Workers across the tabletop and comics industry notched two big union wins last month.

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News organizations should periodically stop and look in the mirror and ask themselves “Have we internalized copspeak to the point that our headlines indistinguishable from police department email subject lines?”

The vote was 93-12! “I’m immensely proud of my fellow workers for their hard work and dedication to winning this election,” said Meredith Nini, senior promotions manager at the University of Chicago Press. newsguild.org/university-o...

University of Chicago Press workers overwhelmingly vote to unionize | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA

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Last month, we won a Pulitzer Prize for our compassionate coverage of a deadly school shooting. Today, we helped our friends pack up their desks as the Minnesota Star Tribune lays off 15% of its staff. We’ve launched a fundraiser to help our colleagues figure out what’s next:

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“I think this is intended to make workers shy away from being vociferous in their opposition to state sponsored violence.”

Minnesota trade unionists among those targeted in federal indictments of ICE observers

“I think this is intended to make workers shy away from being vociferous in their opposition to state sponsored violence.”

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“It is imperative that we receive appropriate cost-of-living increases each year, especially since our union went for more than a decade with no wage increases at all." - Kerry Clawson, Akron Beacon Journal reporter. Join our fight by signing our petition. actionnetwork.org/petitions/su...

US stadium and hotel workers threaten strikes ‘to make things fair’ during World Cup www.theguardian.com/football/202...

US stadium and hotel workers threaten strikes ‘to make things fair’ during World Cup

Low wages and fears of ICE crackdowns have set workers on edge of strike as thousands set to arrive during World Cup

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Two unions representing 2,300 workers at Portland Community College went on strike for three weeks in March, in the first-ever community college strike in Oregon, and a rare wall-to-wall strike where both educators and support staff walked out together. labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...

Portland Community College Workers Defeat Budget Cuts in Wall-to-Wall Strike

Two unions representing 2,300 workers at Portland Community College went on strike for three weeks in March. It was the first-ever community college strike in Oregon, and a rare wall-to-wall strike wh...

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At a bus manufacturing plant in Alabama, longtime worker Stevie Joe Thornton said a manager tried to force workers into overtime daily, despite clear limits in the contract. Thornton walked out during the forced overtime, and later persuaded others to join. 1/2 labornotes.org/2026/05/bus-...

In Bus Factories, A Triple-Decker Win

What does it take to unionize factories today, especially in the South? In the last two years, bus manufacturing workers secured first union contracts and a national master agreement across New Flyer ...

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Happy Pride Month from CWA! 🌈

What does it take to unionize factories today, especially in the South? In the last two years, bus manufacturing workers secured first union contracts and a national master agreement across New Flyer facilities in three states @keithbrowerbrown.bsky.social reports: labornotes.org/2026/05/bus-...

In Bus Factories, A Triple-Decker Win

What does it take to unionize factories today, especially in the South? In the last two years, bus manufacturing workers secured first union contracts and a national master agreement across New Flyer ...

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The charges against our union brother Kilmar Abrego Garcia have been dismissed after more than a year of pain and separation for him and his family. Immigrant workers deserve the same rights, dignity, and due process as every other worker in this country.

Federal judge dismisses criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia — General President Coleman responds - SMART Union

General President Coleman responded to a federal judge dismissing criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

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Heartbreaking and heartening to see our situation stated so plainly here, especially because — as the writer notes — the waters have been intentionally, cynically muddied by now two (2) @post-gazette.com ownership groups (cc: @thebaltimorebanner.com). neilcosgrove.substack.com/p/venetoulis...

Venetoulis Steps into It

On April 14th, less than three weeks prior to the planned cessation of publication of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, came the announcement that the Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism had purchase...

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INBOX: Journalists at the five McClatchy newspapers in Washington and Idaho (the Idaho Statesman, Bellingham Herald, Tri-City Herald, Tacoma News Tribune and The Olympian) are calling a one-day strike today over wages and AI protections. That means no clicking on any links to their sites for today.

The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism — the @thebaltimorebanner.com & new @post-gazette.com owners — have made it clear they're all too eager to run up this tab just like the Amazons, Starbucks, and Delta Airlines of the world.

Michael Sainato@msainato.bsky.social · 3mo ago

US employers spend over $1.5 billion annually to fight their workers' unionization efforts www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

US employers spend over $1.5 billion annually to fight their workers' unionization efforts www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

US employers spend more than $1.5bn a year to fight labor unions, report finds

Critics say employers spend money hiring union-avoidance consultants and lawyers while not investing in workers

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Hell yeah. Don't let bosses convince you that you don't deserve more. Don't let someone who hoards $100 million tell you that working people don't deserve $100,000. Instead organize and get yours.

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Union hotel housekeepers in New York City will soon make over $100,000 a year. A new contract the union and the owners of nearly 250 hotels would raise wages by more than 50%. If workers ratify the deal it'll mean life-changing money for 27,000 union members and their families.

LEGAL ACTION: We have filed an unfair labor practice charge against @reuters.com after management cut ties with one of our Reuters Guild members who was part of an organizing effort asking questions about Thomson Reuters' contracts with DHS. More here nyguild.org/post/newsgui...

Actually, democracy dies in H.R.: How mediocre employees help would-be authoritarians maintain power. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...

Since the announcement of our union, Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro have hired Fisher Phillips (a union avoidance firm), and chosen to engage in a daily union-avoidance campaign by sending emails to the Arena team that is spreading misinformation and sowing fear among our colleagues. #uwotc-cwa

NUJ members at BBC Newshour and The World Tonight are on strike today over management's proposed changes to rotas - which effectively add up to an additional 26 office days per year with no extra pay. Live coverage⬇️ www.nuj.org.uk/resource/liv...

Live coverage from BBC Newshour/World Tonight strike

NUJ members at the BBC who work on Newshour and The World Tonight are taking strike action today (18 May) outside Broadcasting House in London in a dispute over rota changes.

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