Marshall Project Guild

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Securing the future of The Marshall Project ✊

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Marshall Project Guild @TMPGuild Feb 29, 2024

🚨Exciting news from @MarshallProj

Our nonprofit newsroom is unionizing! We have united to form Marshall Project Guild, part of nyguild.org Together, we're committed to preserving the best of our newsroom and securing a future for our staff, work, and readership.

Marshall Project Guild @TMPGuild Apr 8

Today we're taking a collective lunch break in solidarity with @propublicaguild's strike for a fair contract.

You can support ProPublica Guild by not clicking on or sharing PP stories today!

Marshall Project Guild @TMPGuild Aug 14, 2025

🚨Today, we sent a letter to @marshallproj leadership expressing concern about their denial of bargaining obligations. Management has repeatedly denied members Weingarten rights, engaged in an illegal layoff, and more — we need your help to demand that they bargain in good faith.

Dear Katrice and Geraldine,

We are deeply concerned about the manner in which The Marshall Project has been treating our members and approaching the bargaining process. Recently, The Marshall Project leadership has betrayed our organization’s values and compromised our position in the industry and the journalism we pursue. It’s time for that to change.

The guild has worked tirelessly and in good faith on proposals that would keep high-quality health care affordable for Marshallers. We have also been steadfast in asserting that all recognized members deserve due process and fair treatment required under the law.

The organization, in turn, has increasingly taken anti-worker stances that have eroded trust and created a culture that makes it difficult to do the work that makes us proud. Since the organization has taken such a hardline stance, refusing to work with the guild on the items listed below, we will be filing unfair labor practices with the National Labor Relations Board and stepping up our public efforts to make it clear that we demand fair treatment.

1. The organization has repeatedly denied steward representation to a member facing a Performance Improvement Plan and possible termination, as well as denying another member representation in their termination meeting last week. This denial is illegal, egregious, and completely out of line with standards across our industry and the labor movement. We are shocked that the organization would take such a hypocritical and prohibitive stance on this, given our mission. The union has filed an Unfair Labor Practice about this.

2. The organization has caused a retaliatory ripple effect with its actions against one employee that has touched an entire newsroom in Cleveland with negative effects that go against the stated purpose of collaboration with local media and our ability to make good on promises we made to readers. When the organization recognized members it had a duty to follow the law and not proceed with layoffs without bargaining. We have filed an Unfair Labor Practice for the illegal layoff of employees and management retaliation.

3. The organization made a unilateral change to our outside employment policy without bargaining, changing expectations to require managerial approval. We have always maintained a workplace where outside work is permitted and the organization’s sudden termination of Chris Vazquez without a steward, without an opportunity to stop the freelancing project, and without severance is unjust and defies our values.

4. The organization is employing a strategic erosion of status quo through small changes to past practice while we bargain our first contract, including erasure of our cost-of-living adjustment, a significant change to our health insurance, and modifying the evaluation process. The organization has inconsistently complied with requests for information, which does not reflect good faith in bargaining.

The Marshall Project, in retaining union-busting law firm Kauff McGuire & Margolis, is willingly participating in the erosion of worker protections across our industry, a project that takes advantage of the current anti-worker political environment. When The Marshall Project voluntarily recognized our union last year, it touted a “longstanding commitment to a fair, equitable and inclusive workplace, with generous benefits.” We are demanding a return to these values.

Marshall Project Guild @TMPGuild Mar 15, 2024

INCREDIBLE NEWS: We have made an agreement with the leadership of @MarshallProj and we are officially a union! We are so excited to begin working toward our first contract.

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Marshall Project Guild @TMPGuild Mar 1, 2024

🚀Launched in 2014, The Marshall Project has grown, opening local newsrooms in Jackson, Mississippi, and Cleveland, Ohio. With that growth, we recognize the challenges facing the journalism industry.

We're committed to navigating these challenges together.