At news organizations across the country, women and people of color are paid less than their coworkers doing the same job. In fact, as a group, women in the U.S. had to work through most of March 2021 to catch up to men’s earnings for 2020. For women of color, it takes even longer. Women's Equal Pay Day is set for March 24. Asian Women's Equal Pay Day will be observed March 9. Black Women's Equal Pay Day is Aug. 3. Native Women's Equal Pay Day is Sept. 8. Latina Equal Pay Day is Oct. 21.

GE: Build Better in America

Decades of outsourcing and offshoring have slashed General Electric’s domestic workforce and harmed our communities and our national security. Each time GE transfers work or shuts down a factory or a whole division, its spin doctors proclaim that this “reinvention” will strengthen the company. 

In reality, as the company prioritizes quarterly gains over long term sustainability, only GE’s bonus-driven CEOs and hedge fund investors reap the rewards.

The Halifax Typographical Union, founded in 1869, is one of the oldest unions in Canada.
The newsroom workers joined composing room and pressroom members in 1999.

Until the current management of The Chronicle Herald locked out the 13 members of our pressroom unit in January 2015, the union had never been involved in a labour dispute. The company forced 61 members of the newsroom unit into a defensive strike one year later.