{"id":73864,"date":"2026-05-22T05:55:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/local-us-newspaper-workers-allege-hearst-is-trying-to-destroy-unions\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T05:55:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:55:16","slug":"local-us-newspaper-workers-allege-hearst-is-trying-to-destroy-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/local-us-newspaper-workers-allege-hearst-is-trying-to-destroy-unions\/","title":{"rendered":"Local US newspaper workers allege Hearst is trying to \u2018destroy unions\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Media company says it is \u2018committed to good faith bargaining\u2019 amid claims including contract violation<\/p>\n<p>Workers at local newspapers owned by Hearst allege the company is trying to \u201cdestroy unions\u201d amid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlrb.gov\/search\/case\/Hearst?f%5B0%5D=case_type:C&amp;s%5B0%5D=Open\">claims<\/a> of widespread anti-union tactics, including violating union contracts and bad-faith bargaining.<\/p>\n<p>The Albany Newspaper Guild, which represents the Times Union newspaper in Albany, New York, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-times-union-workers-during-walkout\">said<\/a> it\u2019s been more than 17 years since the union had a contract and there has been little progress toward reaching a new one.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/22\/newspaper-hearst-unions-workers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media company says it is \u2018committed to good faith bargaining\u2019 amid claims including contract violation Workers at local newspapers owned by Hearst allege the company is trying to \u201cdestroy unions\u201d amid claims of widespread anti-union tactics, including violating union contracts and bad-faith bargaining. The Albany Newspaper Guild, which represents the Times Union newspaper in Albany, &#8230; <a title=\"Local US newspaper workers allege Hearst is trying to \u2018destroy unions\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/local-us-newspaper-workers-allege-hearst-is-trying-to-destroy-unions\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Local US newspaper workers allege Hearst is trying to \u2018destroy unions\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}