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Unionized staff at ProPublica vote to strike | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA

Unionized staff at one of the nation’s largest nonprofit newsrooms, ProPublica, have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike. Workers have been bargaining for more than two years for a first contract.

The ProPublica Guild, a bargaining unit of The NewsGuild of New York, represents about 150 journalists, videographers, development professionals, copy editors and other workers. The Guild’s strike authorization vote concluded Thursday evening with 92% voting yes and 99% of the union participating in the vote.

Management at ProPublica – which touts its mission to produce investigative journalism with “moral force” – has consistently refused to agree to many provisions that are standard in contracts across the industry.

During more than two years of active bargaining, ProPublica management has:

• Refused to agree to standard job security protections and seniority provisions in layoffs.
• Rejected any restrictions on replacing jobs with AI.
• Denied workers wage increases that keep up with the rising cost of living.

https://newsguild.org/unionized-staff-at-propublica-vote-to-strike/