Bloomberg’s Eidelson wins Sidney Award
Josh Eidelson has won the October Sidney Award for his feature in Bloomberg Businessweek, “How Trump Broke Corporate America’s Most Valuable Consultant.” The story documents the massive cuts to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), a small workplace research agency that contributes billions of dollars of value to the U.S. economy. Unlike its cousin OSHA, NIOSH is […]
Bloomberg Law reporter Rainey departs
Rebecca Rainey, who covered labor for Bloomberg Law, has left for a new opportunity covering the same beat. She was a senior reporter covering the Labor Department. Rainey previously was at Politico for the past three years as an employment and immigration reporter with Politico Pro and the author of the Morning Shift newsletter. Prior […]
Union statement on Ziff Davis, CNET layoffs
The Ziff Davis Creators Guild, The NewsGuild of New York, issued the following statement on layoffs: Our parent company, the multibillion-dollar Ziff Davis, has announced that it is laying off 23 of our members. This reduction in force impacts over 15% of our bargaining unit and comes just after Ziff Davis executives piled on five […]
Forbes union: More temp workers are being used
Forbes management has increasingly shifted to using short-term, part-time, temporary employees instead of replacing those who leave with full-timers, a new Forbes Union/NewsGuild of New York study shows. “Hiring temp workers – who are not represented by us and won’t benefit from the contract we are fighting for – is another example of Forbes management’s […]
Reuters union files unfair labor practice charge
The NewsGuild of New York, which represents Reuters editorial staffers, has filed an unfair labor practice charge against the company. The union wants to hold negotiating sessions open to its members while the company won’t meet in that format, preferring that the meetings only include negotiation committee members. From the union’s perspective, the refusal to […]
The Verge union reaches tentative agreement
The union that represents editorial staffers at tech news site The Verge said it had reached a tentative three-year agreement after an overnight bargaining session. Todd Spangler of Variety writes, “The tentative deal covers about 250 writers and other editorial workers represented by the Writers Guild of America East. Union members and the WGAE Council’s Online […]
Union: Business Insider layoffs due to leadership failures
The NewsGuild of New York, which represents journalists at Business Insider, sent out the following statement in the wake of the news that the publication plans to lay off 21% of its staff: We were notified that Business Insider management intends to lay off about 20 percent of our staff members as part of their […]
Press Progress hires Arkell to cover labor
The Press Progress, a Canadian nonprofit news organization, has hired Emma Arkell to cover labor. A story on its website states, “It’s ironic too, Emma notes, given every newspaper has a business section, but never a labour section: ‘I wish that many stories that would normally be reported as ‘business’ or ‘tech’ stories would instead be […]
Labor Department warns staff not to speak to reporters
A Department of Labor top official this week informed all staff members that they could face criminal charges if they speak to journalists, reports Mark Olalde of ProPublica. Olalde reports, “The warning comes as current and former Labor Department employees have spoken to the news media about harms they see resulting from the dismantling of portions of their […]
WSJ union files complaint over bylines, taglines
The Wall Street Journal management’s decision to restrict bylines and eliminate taglines will be reviewed by the National Labor Relations Board after IAPE TNG-CWA Local 1096 filed a complaint on Thursday. The charge, delivered to NLRB Region 2 in New York, accuses Dow Jones of unfair labor practices by unilaterally imposing new byline and tagline […]
