{"id":605,"date":"2026-09-10T23:19:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T04:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/?p=605"},"modified":"2026-09-14T23:19:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T04:19:52","slug":"four-year-fair-contract-fight-finished-at-forbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/four-year-fair-contract-fight-finished-at-forbes\/","title":{"rendered":"Four-Year Fair Contract Fight Finished at Forbes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After four years of struggle, members of the NewsGuild of New York (TNG-CWA Local 31003) working at Forbes Magazine announced last week the ratification of their first contract. The three-year deal establishes strong editorial integrity protections, sets a new $68.5K salary floor, includes industry-leading job security protections, and more. Forbes Union represents close to 90 reporters and photo and video editors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe refused to accept any deal that didn\u2019t honor the value we bring every day to Forbes,\u201d said Andrea Murphy, unit chair and statistics editor for Forbes. \u201cThis contract is the direct result of our union\u2019s perseverance and solidarity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Members staged multiple collective actions\u2014including two work stoppages\u2014to win this first contract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsguild.org\/forbes-union-wins-first-contract-four-years-after-unionizing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to learn more about this stellar contract<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After four years of struggle, members of the NewsGuild of New York (TNG-CWA Local 31003) working at Forbes Magazine announced last week the ratification of their first contract. The three-year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"external_permalink":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cwa"],"external_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cwa6210.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}