What you need to know about the Daily News Union and their fight for a fair contract.

What you need to knowFor 106 years, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Daily News has served as the watchdog and storyteller of New York City, bringing news to the city’s doorsteps and street corners. 

But in May 2021, predatory hedge fund Alden Global Capital acquired The Daily News and immediately began to extract profits by slashing staff and selling off real-estate including the newspaper’s printing plant in New Jersey and Daily News offices in downtown Manhattan. 

Today, the editorial staff has shrunken to 65 employees tasked with covering a city of 8.5 million people.  

HOW THEY’RE FIGHTING BACK 

The editorial staff of the Daily News unionized in 2021 with the NewsGuild of New York because they knew that a union would be the best path toward protecting the work they do for New York’s Hometown Paper.   

For three years, they have been fighting for a fair contract that would ensure: 

• Fair wage floors and guaranteed annual cost-of-living raises amidst skyrocketing inflation in one of the nation’s most expensive cities

• Job protections and fair benefits for part-time workers 

• Job-security provisions that protect their work from being subcontracted permanently  

• Maintaining standard benefits like time off, sick time, parental leave and 401(k) match 

The paper’s mission, to conscientiously chronicle life in New York, has never been more critical nor more vulnerable.  

A strong contract means that the Daily News journalists will be able to continue to provide the coverage New Yorkers need.