The Reader union is in the middle of contract negotiations, and we could use your support.

Bluesky, we'd like to introduce ourselves. The staff of Static Media would like to announce that we have formed a union with @wgaeast.bsky.social. Much like Jalopnik has already unionized and been recognized, we would like to request a voluntary recognition for all the Static Media sites.

VINDICATED: Condé Nast is paying the price for its illegal attempts at busting our union. Our members won a settlement that vindicates those who “marched on the boss” in November 2025. More here… nyguild.org/post/conde-w...

This week, Slate staff was notified that three employees—all members of the union—were being laid off. Each was a member of Slate’s podcast staff. With their departure, Slate is reducing its audio content, which includes job reductions for a number of contractors. Slate Union's official statement:

We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

Whatever you think of the Washington Post at this moment, here's a chance to support the dedicated, hard-working journalists who were just laid off. If you have the means, your donation is most welcome. If you don't, a kind thought and maybe spreading the word to others is support enough 💙

We're officially fundraising for laid-off Vox workers. Please share and donate if you can! www.gofundme.com/f/support-la...

We have nine days left until our current CBA expires. Here are our contract demands, straight from the voices that make the stories at @huffpost.com possible.

ICE has kidnapped one of my MN News Guild siblings

The Slate Union is extremely happy to announce that we have a tentative agreement on a contract! This was a hard-fought effort, and the result is a stronger, better-compensated union.

We want to keep Slate human! We’ve come to some compromises, but there is still work to do. Slate still has not promised adequate protections against AI-related layoffs, they won’t agree on a definition of generative AI, and they want to be free to use our work to train AI without telling us.

Our union only has seven days until our contract expires and we’re still fighting hard to secure our unit’s most important priorities. We’re determined to get those AI protections and higher salaries!

Yesterday, Slate management agreed to make video editors/producers a union position! We’re happy they met us in good faith and heard our members’ testimonies on why these roles will be crucial members of our editorial staff.

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.

Today Slate’s union members joined the bargaining team in solidarity at the table across from Slate’s management to hear their response to our economic and AI proposals.

We're back at the bargaining table today. We’ve made some progress so far, but have plenty of work left to do. Just six weeks left until our contract expires. All we want this holiday season is a fair contract!

Today, we join unionized nonprofit newsrooms across the country as they stand shoulder-to-shoulder to demand that news industry leaders agree to common-sense guardrails around the implementation of artificial intelligence to protect the integrity, quality, and accuracy of our journalism.

politico violated its union contract through deploying artificial intelligence, an independent arbiter has found

We received our first counterproposals from management today with disappointing language — including no guaranteed wage increases this year and rollbacks of hard-fought language on diversity and severance. We stand united and ready to fight for the contract we deserve.

We just wrapped another big day of bargaining. We're making progress but there will be plenty of work to get done after the holiday, especially regarding our new workplace protections surrounding AI. Grateful as always for this union—and eager to finish bargaining with a strong contract! 💪🦃

10 years after first organizing, it's time to bargain for our fourth contract. We're prepared, we're united and we're locked in.

We’re headed to the bargaining table today for our second meeting with management to discuss details of a new contract. The members of Slate Union are excited to bargain for improvements that will enhance working conditions and lives. We hope Slate management bargains in good faith with us. ✊

It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling Stone. As a result, the majority of VIBE employees were laid off. If you have the means to give, this team could use the support! www.gofundme.com/f/support-vi...

🚨BREAKING: STRIKERS WIN! The order affirms what we’ve said all along: The PG’s lawless union-busting cannot stand. We made sure it didn’t. We’re taking back what they stole from us. We won this strike.

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

NY Attorney General Letitia James joined a Condé Nast union rally, protesting recent firings that followed a staff confrontation with HR.

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Hey everyone, thank you so much for the outpouring of support. I need to pay rent, and I launched a GoFundMe spot.fund/LahutRentFund

Something worth noting: Rockstar is leaning HEAVILY on the excuse that the unionising employees were "leaking private company information" They want people to assume this means game info or assets. But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to: 'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"

More important to me than my identity, I am also the Vice President of the NewsGuild of New York, and targeting me with a blatantly retaliatory termination like this feels like an egregious shot against our union and against media workers as a whole.

Solidarity with our Condé comrades, always and forever. They deserve better and are entitled to the justice they deserve, ASAP

Justice for Alma Avalle, Jake Lahut and the two other employees fired by Condé Nast for questioning their management’s decision to fold Teen Vogue

Union baristas are calling on allies to STOP BUYING STARBUCKS if we go on ULP strike. If our communities stand with us in action, we can take back power from the billionaires & CEOs. nocontractnocoffee.org

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

as my fellow Teen Voguers come over here I’ll be sharing their accounts, throw them a follow, offer them work, and we’ll be launching a gofundme/something similar soon!

We strongly condemn @CondéNast’s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most. More from our statement:

This is the first CBA the for the paper's newsroom in 34 years. This is by all measures a historic accomplishment. When we formed this union five years ago, we aimed to safeguard against the wrath of Alden, a hedge fund notorious for scrapping newspapers for parts.

Big news: The Citizen just bought storied @phillymag.com Here’s why. Learn more: thephiladelphiacitizen.org/bought-phila...

3/ Regardless of whether ProPublica’s board chooses to intervene, we will continue fighting for a fair contract now. You can support us by signing our petition for a fair contract now! actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

1/ Last week, we delivered a letter to @propublica.org's board members, urging them to direct management to agree to a fair contract now. www.propublicaguild.org/updates/to-t...

The power of organization and solidarity! ✊

Hey, all! Two months into striking, things are getting… uncomfortably tight. I’m so proud of doing my part for collective action with my BCGEU colleagues ✊, but my bank account is growling and my bills are grinning. If you’ve enjoyed my work and have the means to help out: PayPal.me/aidanmoher

I don’t think people realize how absolutely fire the sbwu merch is unioncoffeegear.com/product/neve...

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...

The ending of remote working on titles like RS and Pitchfork strikes me as utterly insane. Throwing away veteran contributors for what? American journalists have always lived all over the map

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Here is the students' @idsnews.bsky.social report out of Indiana University, where the student media director was fired today. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

I've run 5 Kickstarter campaigns (!) in the last calendar year and I support @kickstarterunited.org! Here's a form for creators to add their signatures to a petition in support of their strike action towards a fair contract. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

2nd @hearstunion.bsky.social contract negotiations, here we come 💪