Our Job Just Got Harder

Our job just got harder. With the return of Donald Trump to the White House, writers, journalists and media workers across the board can expect increased attacks on the press and media. We can look for more book banning and for more journalists and their confidential sources to face arrests, raids on our homes and […]

NWU Stands Unrelentingly with Gazan Journalists

“Every day that this war goes on, our commitment to Palestinian journalists and PJS grows stronger. They will not surrender and neither will we.” The National Writers Union (NWU) unequivocally condemns Israel’s ongoing, targeted murder of journalists. We are exasperated, incensed, and heartbroken over this massacre, with impunity, of our fellow journalists. An attack on […]

NWU’s 2024 Special Election Results

Hi fellow members,  We’re excited to finally announce the results of NWU’s 2024 Special Election. This election was held to fill the remaining Delegate and Alternate positions ahead of the upcoming Delegate Assembly, which will take place November 15-17 in New York City. Ballots have all been tallied through eBallot by our vendor VoteNet, and write-in candidates […]

Governor Newsom Signs Senator Wiener’s Freelance Worker Bill Into Law

Press Release Contact Larry Goldbetter, President – lgoldbetter@nwu.org Eric Thurm, Campaign Coordinator – eric.d.thurm@gmail.com September 28, 2024 SACRAMENTO – Governor Newsom signed Senator Scott Wiener’s (D-San Francisco) Senate Bill 988, the Freelance Worker Protection Act. SB 988 provides basic labor protections for freelance workers, such as the right to be paid on time and in full. […]

At Cornell, Labor & Academia Convene on the Future of AI

NWU members aren’t the only organized workers thinking strategically about the impacts AI is having on our working conditions these days—it’s on the mind of the labor movement writ large. That’s why earlier this month staff organizers from CWA and the AFL-CIO Technology Institute teamed up with UNI Global Union researchers and the Cornell School […]

2023 Outstanding Academic Title, “We’re Not Ok: Black Faculty Experiences and Higher Education Strategies”

We’re Not OK Antija M. Allen (Editor) & Justin T. Stewart (Editor) In the United States, only 6% of the 1.5 million faculty in degree-granting postsecondary institutions is Black. Research shows that, while many institutions tout the idea of diversity recruitment, not much progress has been made to diversify faculty ranks, especially at research-intensive institutions. […]

NWU Statement on California’s Backroom Deal with Big Tech

The National Writers Union joins our Media Guild of the West colleagues in rejecting the California legislature’s recent backroom deal with Big Tech, which lawmakers have accepted in place of legislation that would properly tax these mega-corporations and sustainably fund California’s struggling news ecosystem. NWU especially condemns the deal’s bizarre provision for Google to fund […]

Special Election Update: Nominations Due Next Week!

Fellow members, Following our recently adopted bylaws, NWU will be holding a Special Election to try to fill the remaining empty chapter Delegate and Alternate seats before the upcoming Delegate Assembly. In order to balance time for chapter leadership to rally nominees and time for the DA planners to prepare for attendees, the Special Election has […]

NY Chapter Continues Inspiring Open Mic Series

NWU delegate Betty Pierre hosted the Saturday afternoon open mic this month at the historic Ottendorfer Library. She was joined by acclaimed guest poets/writers Tanya Ko Hong and Dorothy Randall Gray, author of the bestseller Soul Between The Lines: Freeing Your Creative Spirit Through Writing (Avon/HarperCollins). Dorothy Randall Gray is a Los Angeles celebrity poet, […]