The ProPublica Guild stands in solidarity with our colleagues at the @vtdiggerguild.bsky.social as they fight for common sense guardrails around AI implementation. Lend them a hand by signing their petition 👇
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THE TIMES IS UNION-MADE: Today we began bargaining our new contract, and in our first session, we not only told management we were united, we showed them. Our bargaining committee presented a pledge signed by 80% of our union, supporting five core priorities…..
Our fight for a strong contract continues. Show your support for the workers who make @propublica.org what it is. Sign our petition calling on newsroom management to agree to a fair contract now!
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Journalists help keep New Yorkers safe!
Glad @council.nyc.gov nyc.gov is ensuring journalists maintain access to encrypted NYPD scanners so we can keep the public informed. It’s time for @governor.ny.gov to ensure the same for all New Yorkers across our great state.
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The top of the image reads: "Our discipline proposal: The Company shall follow progressive discipline." The bottom of the image reads "ProPublica management's response" and shows the same text as above, but with a red line over the text. Below the struck out line, it reads "ProPublica shall endeavor to follow the principles of progressive discipline ... However, the Company reserves the right to combine or skip steps ..."
5/ Here's management's response to our proposal that the company shall follow progressive discipline. It says management reserves the right to combine or skips steps.
The top of the image reads: "Our discipline proposal: A valid Performance Improvement Plan must provide ... at least ninety (90) working days, not including holidays, vacation and leave, before the Company may determine that an employee failed to meet the objectives of a PIP." The bottom of the image reads "ProPublica management's response" and includes the same proposal, but with red lines through all of the text.
4/ Here's management's response to our proposal that a performance plan should have a set number of working days — a total strikethrough.
The top of the image reads "Our discipline proposal: Employees shall have the right to have a Guild representative or steward present at any meeting that the employee reasonably believes may lead to discipline or discharge." The bottom of the image reads "ProPublica management's response:" and includes the same proposal, but with red lines striking out all of the text.
3/ Here's management's response to our proposal that our members should have guild representation in disciplinary meetings — a total strikethrough.
The top half of a graphic reads: "Our discipline proposal: A valid Performance Improvement Plan must provide ... clear, reasonable and objective criteria or metrics by which the employee’s performance will be assessed. " The bottom half of the graphic says "ProPublica Management's Response" and incudes the same proposal text but all of it has a red line through it.
2/ Here's management's response to our proposal that PIPs must have clear, reasonable and objective criteria — a total strikethrough.
2/ Our readers deserve clear labeling on AI content, and we deserve job security. Sign our petition for a fair contract and we’ll keep you updated on our campaign: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
Headline: ProPublica management wants 100% discretion over when and how to use AI Supplementary text: The organization rejected our proposal that ensures staff will not be replaced by AI and requires labeling AI-generated content
1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
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Statement from The NewsGuild of New York and Condé United on illegal firing of four union leaders who demanded answers about this week’s layoffs at Teen Vogue, other brands Late Wednesday night, Condé Nast’s VP of Labor Relations notified the Guild that the Company was immediately terminating four Condé United leaders for engaging in the protected concerted activity of gathering in their 1 World Trade Center office to demand answers on this week’s abrupt layoffs at multiple brands including WIRED and the consolidation at Teen Vogue. These egregious terminations are a flagrant breach of the Just Cause terms of our contract and an unprecedented violation of their federally protected rights as union members to participate in a collective action. Through these illegal terminations, Condé Nast management is attempting to intimidate and silence our members' advocacy for the courageous cultural and political journalism of Teen Vogue, as well as diverting attention away from the obvious lack of corporate leadership at the company. Condé United members illegally fired are: Alma Avalle: Writer, digital producer at Bon Appetit; NewsGuild of New York first vice president, trans activist, and union leader Jake Lahut: Wired senior reporter covering the Trump White House Jasper Lo: Senior fact checker at The New Yorker and US Army veteran: outgoing first vice chair of The New Yorker Union Ben Dewey: Videographer at Condé Nast Entertainment, former vice chair of the CNE unit “Management’s attempt at union-busting, using intimidation and grossly illegal tactics to try to suppress protected union activity, will not stand,” said Susan DeCarava, president of The NewsGuild of New York. “The NewsGuild of New York has zero tolerance for bad bosses who harass, target and disrespect our fellow Guild members. We represent nearly 6,000 media workers across the tri-state area and we stand firmly in solidarity, ready to fight for the rights of our members illegally fired from their jobs at …
Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.
Condé Nast's actions are in direct violation of our contracts and of labor law. Solidarity with our unjustly fired colleagues across the company. This is not over.
This is outrageous union-busting behavior from clueless Condé management! You better believe @nyguild.bsky.social members will be rallying to support our unjustly terminated union siblings!!! ✊
Hey @propublica.org - It's time you listen to the 1,300-and-climbing who have signed the petition for a fair contract NOW for our @propublicaguild.org
On today's layoffs at @nbcnews.com affecting our NBC Digital NewsGuild: "What’s clear: Corporate profits are being maximized at the expense of our hard-working members who create the very value that drives the success of NBC," says NY Guild President Susan DeCarava
FOLLOW THE MONEY: Why were we, a newspaper union, outside a Brooklyn pilates studio recently, sharing our fight for a fair contract? Watch our new video about the family behind SLT Studios.
Headshots of the 13 candidates for NewsGuild of New York on the Guild Forward slate: - Susan DeCarava, local president - Bill Baker (Times Guild), treasurer - Jody Godoy (Reuters Guild), local chair - Kathy Zhang (Times Tech Guild), secretary - Alma Avalle (Condé Nast Editorial), 1st vice president - Theresa Schliep (Law360 Union), 2nd vice president - Dave Ingram (NBC News Guild), 3rd vice president - Daniel Neuburger (People United), vice chair - Max Eddy (Wirecutter Union), vice chair - Mike Davis (APP-MCJ Guild), vice chair - Jonathan Allen (Reuters Guild), vice chair - Hannah Aizenman (The New Yorker Union), vice chair - Nish Suvarnakar (Consumers Union), vice chair
Thrilled to become a vice chair of the @nyguild.bsky.social with my Guild Forward comrades, led by the dynamic duo @susandecarava.bsky.social & Bill Baker.
Joining this union changed my life, and I’m excited to keep up the fight against bosses everywhere.
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Three banners, two black with white text and one red with white text, that read POST-GAZETTE STRIKERS WILL WIN hang from a yellow bridge with the Pittsburgh skyline in the background.
Tomorrow, our unfair labor practice strike against @post-gazette.com marks it's third full year. Three years of fighting the most lawless union-busting campaign can be tiring, but we're never going to quit fighting.
Last night, we were uplifted to see a new sign adorning the Pittsburgh skyline...
ProPublica Guild Secretary Jeff Ernsthausen presents CEO Robin Sparkman with our petition signatures.
ProPublica Guild members gather in CEO Robin Sparkman’s office delivering petition signatures.
ProPublica Guild members gather in CEO Robin Sparkman’s office delivering petition signatures.
ProPublica Guild members gather in the hallway outside CEO Robin Sparkman’s office, delivering petition signatures.
Today we delivered to senior management in NY a petition signed by 1,300 ProPublica readers, donors and supporters, as well as fellow journalists at peer newsrooms and former ProPublicans. It’s clear that we have wide support for a fair contract NOW.
The reporters, photographers and editors of the Daily News Union stand with the journalists who were assaulted today while documenting ICE operations at 26 Federal Plaza.
STATEMENT: The NewsGuild of New York condemns the violent attack by ICE agents against three journalists covering immigration proceedings in Manhattan and demands that immigration courts take immediate action to prevent similar attacks from happening in the future.
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ON THE AIR: “Alden is a hedge fund that cares about one thing and one thing only - money,” said our @antwanstaley.bsky.social, who was on The @realmichaelkay.bsky.social Show, talking about @nydailynews.com sports staffing under owner Alden Global Capital.
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My colleagues deserve better. Our readers deserve better. New York City deserves better.
I have, and always will, love the Daily News. The staff deserves better.✊🏻
Watch this video with our president, @susandecarava, who talks about what winning the 'Visionary Award' means to her
Our members have won hard-fought contracts requiring employers to uphold the basic principles of a diverse workplace and make good-faith efforts to promote equity and inclusion in hiring.
Read our statement:
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Terminating the grants to study misinformation is “an overt act of censoring and preventing accountability,” says Stephen Lewandowsky, a misinformation researcher at the University of Bristol. “Who other than a liar would cancel misinformation research?”
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AWARD-WINNING MEMBERS: We are so proud of our members who won @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social. Please join us in celebrating the winners and finalists, which include: ....
