In 2025, City Bureau Workers formed the CB Workers Guild, won voluntary recognition, and started negotiating our first contract to sustain our mission and values.
🎉 This New Year’s Eve, we’re celebrating some big wins from 2025: we launched our union, won recognition, and started contract negotiations! Huge thanks to all our supporters and collaborators. 💛 Can’t wait to hit the ground running in 2026!
Signal Ohio was founded to support local news.
But instead, management refuses to recognize our union and has hired the notorious anti-union firm Jackson Lewis.
🚨 It’s time to escalate. Tell Signal Ohio’s CEO: Respect the journalists building local news!
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Join us in solidarity with the Signal Ohio News Workers Guild. Congratulations to the members of the Signal Ohio News Workers Guild (SONWG) for coming together to start a union! We are excited to support their campaign. We're calling on CEO Rita McNeil Danish and the Signal Ohio Board of Directors to voluntarily recognize SONWG and start negotiations. swipe right to sign the union's petition
The labor local media workers do, keeping community members informed and holding politicians accountable, is essential. All workers deserve to collectively bargain with their employers and weigh in on important decisions that affect them. A union is crucial to protecting these rights. Swipe right to sign the union's petition
To visit and sign the union's petition, go to bit.ly/SONWGpetition
Congratulations to members of Signal Ohio News Workers Guild (SONWG) for coming together to start a union! We're excited to support their campaign. We’re calling on Signal Ohio's CEO and Board to voluntarily recognize SONWG. Join us by signing the petition! ➡️ bit.ly/SONWGpetition
🧵 City Bureau is proud to voluntarily recognize the City Bureau Workers Guild!
At the most basic level, we value our team, see the incredible impact of their work, and fully respect their right to organize. 1/5
‼️There’s more work to do—here’s how you can continue to support us:
➡️Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram for updates on the bargaining process.
➡️Tag @citybureau.bsky.social on socials and let the CB community know how excited you are for our union drive!
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We look forward to beginning the bargaining process and co-creating an equitable contract that serves workers and the organization we all love. Building a strong, unionized workplace is a journey, and we’ve just taken a major step to bolster our collective power.
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🎉It’s official: We’ve been recognized!
On July 10, City Bureau’s leadership formally, voluntarily recognized our union.
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We’re asking leadership to voluntarily recognize our union so we can forgo the election process and start bargaining ASAP.
Want to support our union drive? Tell City Bureau’s leadership to voluntarily recognize our union NOW. Sign our petition at bit.ly/cbworkers & learn about the process below.
‼️UPDATE‼️
Today, we filed a petition for the National Labor Review Board to monitor an election by City Bureau workers on certifying our union. While we are in communication with City Bureau’s leadership, they still haven’t recognized our union.
Grateful to have the support of our friends at 🫂💖✊ @invisible.institute
Shoutout to our friends, family, and comrades for joining us last night in launching our union drive 💖💪💖✊
If you haven't already done so please sign our petition at bit.ly/cbworkers
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LET'S GO! ✊
The work @citybureau.bsky.social does is so important and it is nothing without the workers.
Support @cbworkersguild.bsky.social and sign their petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/fo...
Hey folks! My co-workers and I at City Bureau are organizing a union! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
But we need some help! It would be great if you all followed our socials and shared our posts on here and Insta @cbworkersguild.bsky.social and sign our petition to voice community support! (bit.ly/cbworkers )
Thanks 🙏🏾
Congrats!
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City Bureau staff is unionizing!
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UNION ALERT!!! I'm organizing with the @cbworkersguild.bsky.social ✊🏼🖊
We want to build City Bureau's future collectively, and you can help us by signing on to our petition at bit.ly/cbworkers
thank you!! 💖
One of the best things that has come out of working at CB has been being able to work with a group of people that I have the utmost respect for. I’m constantly in awe of how much care and dedication everyone has put into this work. @cbworkersguild.bsky.social
the City Gurls are unionizing!!!
I’m incredibly proud to share that my colleagues and I at City Bureau have joined together to formally unionize under the Chicago News Guild-CWS Local 34071.
@cbworkersguild.bsky.social
Second day in a row in @newsguild.org that we're welcoming a new union - we love to see it
So proud of the newest members of our union @cbworkersguild.bsky.social !
Sign our petition and call on @citybureau.bsky.social to recognize the union that 100% workers have supported!
Welcome to the Chicago Guild, City Bureau Guild members! Solidarity!
NEW: Workers at nonprofit newsroom City Bureau are unionizing with @chicagonewsguild.bsky.social!
They're joining the growing labor movement to build a stronger, more democratic media system for their community.
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CHICAGO — Workers at the nonprofit journalism lab City Bureau are forming a union and seeking to become a part of the Chicago News Guild, TNG-CWA Local 34071, joining the nationwide labor movement for a stronger media system. It is as urgent as ever that journalists and practitioners working to address information gaps have a voice to advocate for fairness, accountability and equity. As of July 1, 2025, eligible City Bureau staff—across every department that plays a role in editorial work, programming and the organization’s operations—unanimously signed cards and a mission statement showing their support in forming a union with the NewsGuild-CWA. The City Bureau Workers Guild has requested the organization’s leadership to voluntarily recognize the union and work with staff to create its first-ever contract. If not recognized voluntarily, workers are seeking an election monitored by the National Labor Relations Board by mail. In its mission statement, the City Bureau Workers Guild outlined the following organizing principles that are guiding their efforts:
Sustainability & Responsibility We want to secure a stable future for City Bureau's staff and programs. We advocate for a supportive work environment that equips us to do our best work with pathways to grow, invests in staff wellbeing for the long-term, and includes our inputs to make responsible decisions for the health and sustainability of the organization. Ethics & Accountability We recognize that collective action is a meaningful tool to ensure we hold ourselves accountable to the communities we serve. We advocate for robust standards of care that uphold the integrity of our work, and fair and clear mechanisms for staff and community voices to shape organizational decisions that impact us. Anti-Racism & Intersectionality We as workers honor City Bureau's founding principles based in racial justice, and we work together through an intersectional lens to dismantle the pillars of white supremacy in the workplace that enable complicity, bias, and unfair treatment. We advocate for policies and systems across the organization that are firmly rooted in anti-racism to further diversity, inclusion and equity. Respect & Solidarity We are committed to our collective power. We collaborate with empathy and care to make decisions that enable us to serve people most impacted by oppressive structures. We advocate as a unit to protect the dignity of every worker.
Happy hour with City Bureau Workers Guild. When: July 1, 2025, starting @ 6 PM Where: NIghthawk, 4774 N. Kimball Join us to celebrate our union, show you rsupport and get your own City Bureau Workers Guild merch (available on a sliding scale)! Linktr.ee/cbworkersguild
new: workers at city bureau, a nonprofit journalism lab, are forming a wall-to-wall union with the chicago news guild.
@cbworkersguild.bsky.social are hosting a community happy hour for supporters and press this evening at nighthawk in albany park.
▶️ Reading our mission statement at linktr.ee/cbworkersguild
▶️ Signing our petition at bit.ly/cbworkers
▶️ Following @CBWorkersGuild here and on Instagram
Chicago folks, show your support and celebrate with us this evening at Nighthawk (4744 N Kimball Ave) starting at 6pm! [Linktree link]