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:

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

“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...

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...

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-...

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-...

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.

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...

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.

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

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.

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...

United Airlines flight attendants approved a new five-year union contract with average raises of 31%. About 30,000 flight attendants with @afacwa.org will now get their first raise in nearly six years. The contract also means attendants will finally get paid during boarding.

NEW: Workers are turning to unions to rein in harmful workplace AI. NewsGuild members like Anna from @zdcreatorsguild.bsky.social are winning key AI protections in union contracts, as a new @aflcio.org poll shows workers trust unions to lead on AI! ✊

United AFA Flight Attendants voted 82% to ratify their new Contract, with 88.9% participating. United Flight Attendants will receive a 31% average wage increase and boarding pay this summer, and many other improvements. afacwa.org/united-fligh...

As the richest university in the world reels from Epstein scandals & attacks by the Trump administration, over 4,000 Harvard grad student workers go on strike. I speak with three striking members/officers of Harvard Graduate Students Union @uaw.org @therealnews.com therealnews.com/amid-trump-a...

We at States Newsroom are proud to be part of the GenAI Slop-Free News list on Bluesky, and we now have an official public AI policy to prove that we belong there. "States Newsroom does not publish stories or commentaries generated by AI."

For the locals: We've got our second PAPER town hall this coming Wednesday. We want to hear from you. And you *might* even hear the name of our impending daily news co-op 🤫. RSVP today? actionnetwork.org/events/coope...

Just as the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was set to shutter, it was purchased by the Venetoulis Institute, which also owns the Baltimore Banner. Then, they fired most of the @pghguild.com union workers who participated in the recently ended strike at the PPG.

OurPaperNow.org has received more than 700 donations already. Successful news co-ops have been launched with less. "... I’ve seen us do the impossible before, and I know we can do it again.” www.cjr.org/feature/vene...

On this day in 1933, Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld library in Berlin. The world’s greatest collection of LGBTQ books and scientific papers were looted and later burned, erasing decades of research into sexuality and gender identity. ‘Where they burn books, in the end they will burn humans too’.

The deep staff cuts and anti-union purge at @post-gazette.com don’t feel any better now than they did last week. Decades of both institutional knowledge, and potential careers there, have been discarded. What can you do? Plan for what’s next with us next Wednesday. actionnetwork.org/events/coope...

It's bad when the leaders of news organizations lie. That's what Venetoulis Institute (@post-gazette.com & @thebaltimorebanner.com) CEO Bob Cohn did here. He cut 50% of the staff. He canned 80% of strikers. Of the scabs he kept, 80% had publicly disavowed the union. www.cjr.org/feature/vene...

I am so happy for this!

Congrats to today's Pulitzer winners — not *just* the Guild folks. FYI: The owners of the @thebaltimorebanner.com & @post-gazette.com began their PG tenure by canning members of the team that won a Pulitzer for Tree of Life coverage. Why? They're former strikers. actionnetwork.org/forms/pledge...

A survivor of the Kent State Massacre rings the bell on campus today, May 4, at exactly 12:20, the moment his classmates fell, 56 years ago.

What's disgusting? Union busting!

I'm just totally shocked and appalled by this. I thought the Baltimore Banner folks who bought the P-G were good human beings. I was wrong

The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism (@thebaltimorebanner.com) has begun its ownership of the @post-gazette.com by cutting at least 40% of staff, and 80% of former strikers. It is sad, vindictive, and does not bode well for what we’ve fought and hoped for, including the success of the PG.

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Today, the incoming ownership of @post-gazette.com received the following open letter from city, county, state, and federal elected officials welcoming the Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism to Pittsburgh, and urging strong staffing and good-faith bargaining.

After numerous workers have spent decades working with manufactured stone, a grim reality is becoming clear: no amount of protection can keep them safe from silicosis, a fatal condition that requires lung transplants even to manage: labornotes.org/2026/04/coun... 1/2

Something to consider for "white-collar" workers who, incorrectly, might not see themselves in Workers' Memorial Day. Does an executive or owner of your workplace care any more about your life than a factory boss does for their workers? Survey says, No.

While we're eager to hear how our interviews for our jobs have landed, we're also not sitting on our hands. The Post-Gazette WILL be a union paper for a union town. Can you jump on this petition for robust local news coverage & some good ol' good-faith bargaining? actionnetwork.org/forms/pledge...

“This isn’t just something that affects Wizards of the Coast; it’s how most American workplaces are set up: investor profit above all, even if it hurts those behind the products we all know and love. Unions are the missing counterweight to protect our craft.” Solidarity with MTG Arena workers 💪

I published my book about the labor movement with Hachette so I am very excited to see the announcement that Hachette workers are unionizing. Publishing should be a union industry. Learn more and support them here: hachetteworkers.com

Well, we cleared 1,000 🙂

900+ signatures and counting. We'd love to hand over 1,000. Maybe you'll make light work of that, too. 😈

Ah, now it's 600. And we're not even done with our 20-minute interviews yet!

Already more than 500 signatures since we launched this morning. Let's keep it up.

We joined many of you in welcoming the PG’s new owners. Then celebrations got cut short. Folks in Baltimore were told our staff is getting halved. The CEO was dodgy on the record re: unions. Will you sign our pledge marking the need for robust staff & a union PG? actionnetwork.org/forms/pledge...

We are very, very glad that the PG is surviving! We’re eager to turn over a new leaf with new owners who value journalism, and respect Pittsburgh. We’re also concerned by the new ownership's public statements regarding job cuts.

We were stoked to see nearly 100 people at our town hall last night, share our vision for a multi-stakeholder daily news co-op, and hear what you all need in one for the future of journalism in Pittsburgh. The desire for local, representative news we all own was clear! OurPaperNow.org