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AI is harming so many communities across the globe. AI’s carbon emissions and consumption of electricity and freshwater resources means higher bills and more pollution. AI bots on social media platforms are further eroding democracy. And actors from ICE to the Israeli military are using AI to disappear and kill people. As workers, we also face the threat of AI to our jobs and the better world we are fighting for. But CNG members are fighting back. For our media units, journa
by: Dave Mulcahey, CNG co-treasurer and editor at Tribune News Service Just over eight months ago, the Department of Homeland Security deployed thousands of federal agents to Illinois to carry out militarized sweeps of undocumented immigrants and crack down on the sanctuary policies of the state, Cook County, Chicago, and its suburbs. Operation Midway Blitz, as it was called, quickly devolved into violence, intimidation and official misconduct. Less than a week after the ope
Contact: UCP Workers Guild | ucpworkers@gmail.com Emily Steelhammer, Executive Director | esteelhammer@chicagonewsguild.org Sign On to Help Chicago Press Workers Gain Voluntary Recognition! Workers at the University of Chicago Press are forming a union with the Chicago News Guild, TNG-CWA Local 34071, joining the nationwide labor movement for a stronger publishing industry. The UCP Workers Guild has requested that leadership agree to voluntary recognition and work with staff
