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 Joins Coalition Calling on California Officials to Respect Freedom of Press
As a union fighting for the rights of media workers, we’re proud to have joined these organizations in calling on California officials to act with transparency and respect for the role of the press in documenting sweeps of homeless encampments: The First Amendment Coalition, Los Angeles Press Club, and National Press Photographers Association, joined by […]
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, […]
US Copyright Office spurns Web creators in favor of news publishers
On July 22, 2024, the U.S. Copyright Office finalized new procedures through which the publisher of a “news website” will be able to register the copyright in an entire month of updates to their site with a single application for a $95 fee. Creators of Web content will remain unable to register more than 50 […]
NWU at NABJ
I attended the National Association of Black Journalists event in Chicago July 31-August 4, where I talked to about two dozen attendees about joining NWU and handed out lots of our new buttons and flyers about the Freelance Worker Protection Act that went into law in IL on July 1 (the most recent NWU-backed Freelance […]
NWU Statement on the Assassinations of Ismail al-Ghoul and Rami al-Rifi
In solidarity with our sibling union the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate (PJS), and in the strongest possible terms, the National Writers Union (NWU) condemns the assassinations of our comrades Al Jazeera correspondent Ismail al-Ghoul and photographer Rami al-Rifi on July 31, 2024. The pair were killed in an Israeli strike while covering events in al-Shati Refugee […]
NWU Poets Basking on a Sunlit Stage
Dashing threats of storms, poets from NWU’s New York Chapter performed during a prime slot at this year’s New York Poetry Festival, an annual outdoor event on Governors Island organized by The Poetry Society of New York. Member Elissa Matthews served as our MC on Saturday, July 13. Our set on The White Horse Stage […]
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