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Op-ed: California Legislature should drop latest attack on gig workers
April 21, 2025 // “The bill’s utter lack of detail is a problem,” William Messenger told us; he’s vice president and legal director of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, which defends workers’ right not to be controlled by unions. “It’s almost like they’re giving that department the authority to just sort of make up its own labor law.” He contrasted that with Massachusetts, whose voters last November passed Question 3, which enacts gig driver rules, but runs to 33 pages and, among other things, details a hearing and appeals process.
3 production unions, Post-Gazette reach strike settlement
March 18, 2025 // The newspaper’s mailers and typographical workers, represented by the Communications Workers of America, and the pressmen, represented by the Teamsters, will receive 26 weeks of severance pay, plus additional compensation for staff who were paid on a commission basis. In February, a federal judge in Pittsburgh denied an emergency injunction sought by the National Labor Relations Board on behalf of the three unions. The injunction had asked the court to force the newspaper back to the bargaining table and require that striking workers be reimbursed for future medical expenses.
LNP, WITF journalists to vote on unionizing
February 3, 2025 // Not everyone in the newsrooms is in favor of affiliating with a union. Michael Long, 51, an LNP | LancasterOnline deputy editor, said he will be voting no. “Across the board, unions decrease profitability,” Long said in an email to LNP | LancasterOnline colleagues. “And if you take away money from an organization that is already losing money, it will only hasten more layoffs.” When grievances occur, Long said in a followup interview, “there’s nothing stopping us from making concerted, good-faith efforts to address them ourselves with management.”
Journalists and news staff at Anchorage Daily News aim to unionize
September 12, 2024 // Owner Ryan Binkley, who purchased the newspaper out of bankruptcy in 2017, and Editor David Hulen, who has worked as a reporter and editor with the paper for more than three decades, did not respond to a request for comment on Tuesday afternoon. Megan Pacer, a digital audience producer for the paper, said ADN employees love their jobs, but want a “supportive and sustainable” work environment.
Chicago Tribune employees rally for fair contracts, livable wages
December 18, 2023 // Unionized reporters, photographers, editors and other newsroom employees have been without a contract for five years. On Saturday, the employees spoke out against their owner, Alden Capital's detrimental labor practices and profiteering-driven bargaining efforts.
Austin American-Statesman journalists to strike
June 5, 2023 //
Reuters to Allow Employees Mostly Work From Home in Tentative Agreement with Union
January 2, 2023 // The agreement between Reuters and the union expired nearly two years ago. In August, Reuters employees held their first strike in decades over stalled wage negotiations. Reuters reportedly offered 1 percent wage increases over three years, despite a 9 percent inflation rate for urban consumers. Last month, unionized employees authorized another strike. The agreement lets Reuters change its work-from-home policies after the 2023 year. It also limits management’s use of nondisclosure agreements in harassment and discrimination cases, according to Bloomberg. Union members will vote on the contract today (Dec. 28).
Pennsylvania Task Force Wants To Import California’s Catastrophic ‘ABC Test,’ Crush Independent Contractors
March 3, 2022 // However, since the PRO Act is currently stalled in the U.S. Senate—and may be impossible to pass after the 2022 mid-term elections—unions and their political allies are trying to put the ‘ABC Test’ into effect in the statehouses.