The Wilkes-Barre News Guild, representing the staff of The Citizens' Voice

01/17/2024

The return of a struggling newspaper from an investment firm to a local owner would normally be cause for celebration in the troubled news industry. But The Baltimore Sun’s newly announced owner has a very specific political background, and some are concerned about what the 187-year-old publicatio...

12/14/2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/14/alden-pennsylvania-scranton-family-newspaper/

After 128 years in one family, four healthy newspapers in Pennsylvania get gobbled up by a hedge fund.

04/27/2023

https://dfmworkers.org/pittsburgh-newspaper-workers-are-making-history/

Online “strike paper” is part of an esteemed tradition By Julie Reynolds It’s rare for private-sector union members to go on strike these days. But it’s even rarer for journalists to walk off the job. I remember occasionally

04/27/2023

https://www.unionprogress.com/2022/10/30/pittsburgh-union-progress-carrying-forward-a-rich-tradition-of-strike-papers/

From the Baltimore Banner to the Detroit Sunday Journal, the Pittsburgh Union Progress is just the latest in a long line of strike papers.

02/17/2023

04/08/2022

The president lauded a union drive and declared “Amazon, here we come” — but he’s refused to even follow his own task force’s limited recommendations to boost unionization.

04/04/2022

In 2020 Chris Smalls was fired for organizing a walkout in protest of Amazon’s COVID safety procedures. Now he’s the president of the first Amazon union in the country.

04/04/2022

Also: “Grievance,” “slave labor,” “This is dumb,” “living wage,” “diversity,” “vaccine,” and others.

02/07/2022

Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh members will be receiving over $100,000 in reimbursement money, plus 6% statutory interest, from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette after a years-long legal battle over the c…

11/24/2021

Much of the focus is on workers in Buffalo.

10/30/2021

Like it or not, the way we work has already evolved.

10/22/2021

2021 Sector Conference adopted sweeping constitutional changes, looks to future Posted on October 18, 2021October 18, 2021Author Jon SchleussCategories Bargaining, Events, Featured, News, Organizing, Press Freedom Most folks are not usually interested in a six-hour zoom call, but the 2021 NewsGuild-...