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Official account for @Forbes’ editorial newsroom and video staff union with @NYGuild. Est. 2021. Won our first contract Sept. 2026.

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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A HUGE WIN: The @forbesunion.bsky.social has ratified our first contract. Highlights: Strong editorial integrity protections, a new $68.5K salary floor, gold-standard job security protections, and more. Read here for details: nyguild.org/post/nyguild...
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A HUGE WIN: The @forbesunion.bsky.social has ratified our first contract. Highlights: Strong editorial integrity protections, a new $68.5K salary floor, gold-standard job security protections, and more. Read here for details: nyguild.org/post/nyguild...
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Amy Feldman @amyfeldman7.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
RIP Gloria Steinem 💔 “I feel proud, and I feel mad as hell. We are still dealing with the same issues.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...
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Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92
She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.
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The NewsGuild of New York @nyguild.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A HUGE WIN: Our @forbesunion.bsky.social has ratified their first contract. Highlights: Strong editorial integrity protections, a new $68.5K salary floor, gold-standard job security protections, and more. Read here for details: nyguild.org/post/nyguild...
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
$6 million: that could’ve afforded Forbes Union members over $65,000 in raises apiece. Management may have sacked Randall Lane, but they continue in their opposition to giving us fair wages. Does Forbes management think taking a secret payment is a way for journalists to get a raise?
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
More information to follow.
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Forbes Union statement regarding The New York Times’s reporting on Randall Lane:
Forbes Union statement: As you may have read, the New York Times reported that former Forbes EIC Randall Lane accepted $6 million from RJ Shook, a business partner of Forbes, which led to his firing. Randall Lane consistently stood against the Forbes Union during his tenure. The Forbes Union reaffirms our demand for fair raises that we’ve been denied for years while our editor collected millions of dollars in secret payments. We demand management share more details of what they knew, when they knew it, if this is the only secret payment Randall Lane received, and why they refused to disseminate more information to employees. 

Solidarity,
Forbes Union
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Despite @forbes.com CCO @randalllane.bsky.social's claim to want the best newsroom in media, he & CEO Sherry Phillips are keeping salaries below industry norms. Is it any wonder we've seen an exodus of staffers?
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Despite @forbes.com CCO @randalllane.bsky.social's claim to want the best newsroom in media, he & CEO Sherry Phillips are keeping salaries below industry norms. Is it any wonder we've seen an exodus of staffers?
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Wondering why @forbes.com, led by CEO Sherry Phillips and CCO @randalllane.bsky.social, has seen an exodus of talented journalists recently? This right here. #journalismjobs #journalists
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Wondering why @forbes.com, led by CEO Sherry Phillips and CCO @randalllane.bsky.social, has seen an exodus of talented journalists recently? This right here. #journalismjobs #journalists
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Meanwhile, a supermajority of our @forbes.com newsroom voted no confidence in the leadership of CEO Mike Federle and CCO Randall Lane. Take a moment to read our reasons.
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Today, our members distributed fliers outside the Forbes Iconoclast summit to let management know we deserve a fair contract. Four years into bargaining, Forbes is still proposing wages that do not keep up with inflation. Solidarity, Forbes Union
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
On Sunday, our members placed flyers around Forbes Vice Chairman Mike Perlis’s hometown. Perlis has been absent from bargaining for years, despite our calls for fair wages and workplace protections. Management has no excuses. Forbes employees deserve a fair contract, and we will win one.
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Stop stonewalling, Sherry and @forbes.com!!! Many in the newsroom have gone YEARS without a raise, while Sherry proposes piddly annual increase nowhere close to the inflation rate!!!
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Our colleagues were back last weekend in the hometown of @forbes.com CEO Sherry Phillips to spread the news that she is a union buster who continues to deny our members a fair contract. 👎 @nyguild.bsky.social
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Fair contract, NOW! #brynmawr #journalism #50over50 #30under30 #unionstrong #cheapaf #media #union @nyguild.bsky.social #journalismpay #journalismjobs @forbes.com
Sherry Phillips, Forbes CEO, is a union buster.
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Sherry's friends and neighbors need to know that the @forbes.com is a union buster.
Sherry Phillips, Forbes CEO, is a union buster.
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Stop stonewalling, Sherry and @forbes.com!!! Many in the newsroom have gone YEARS without a raise, while Sherry proposes a 1.5% annual increase, not even close to the inflation rate!!!
Forbes CEO Sherry Phillips is a union buster
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
At bargaining this month, the @forbes.com management team was in full refusal mode, coming to the table with exactly nothing when the union arrived ready to negotiate with six counters.
Sherry Phillips, Forbes CEO, is a union buster.
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Our fearless colleagues braved the snowstorm last weekend to visit the hometown of @forbes.com CEO Sherry Phillips and spread the news that she is a union buster who continues to deny our members a fair contract. 👎
Sherry Phillips, Forbes CEO, is a union buster.
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
What makes all this worse is @forbes.com’s shrinking staff. Our union has fallen to 80 members as of September 2025, down more than 25% from 108 members in August 2023 and still well below the 93 members in 2021. Why is it shrinking? Stagnant pay doesn’t help. #journalism #journalismstudents
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
There’s also a persistent gender pay gap. Women earn $7,754 less on average than men (a slight improvement from the $11,280 gap that existed in 2023) and have a median salary that’s $4,480 lower. This is on @forbes.com CEO Sherry Phillips and CCO Randall Lane.
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Big takeaway from our 3rd annual pay study: Racial pay gaps at @forbes.com have worsened. White employees average $95,089, compared with $87,500 for Asian, $74,557 for Hispanic or Latino, and $71,438 for Black employees. READ THE STUDY HERE 👇 nyguild.org/post/racial-...
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RACIAL PAY DISPARTY WORSENS AT FORBES, NEW UNION STUDY SHOWS
NEW YORK – Unionized journalists of color at Forbes magazine continue to be paid significantly less – and stay on staff for significantly shorter periods of …
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
@forbes.com CEO Sherry Phillips hasn't been to a single bargaining session. Instead, she sends proxies who speak for her and this is the kind of thing that comes of it.
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Can we talk about the illogic and short-sightedness of @forbes.com's temp workforce churn? This is on CEO Sherry Phillips and CCO @randalllane.bsky.social, who have not shown the kind of leadership the newsroom deserves. #journalism #journalismjobs #cheap #newsroom @nyguild.bsky.social
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
@forbes.com mgt, led by CEO Sherry Phillips and CCO Randall Lane, have proposed 1.25% annual bumps for staff, not even keeping up with inflation--when many in the newsroom go YEARS without a raise. #journalismjobs @nyguild.bsky.social
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Our fearless colleagues were outside the @forbes.com Power Women’s Summit in the rain ☔ this morning with an important gut check.
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Our fearless colleagues were outside the @forbes.com Power Women’s Summit in the rain ☔ this morning with an important gut check.
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
We handed out this flyer at the 2025 @forbes.com Power Women’s Summit today to bring awareness to the blatant hypocrisy of this event. We want Forbes CEO Sherry Phillips to answer why this event is happening when Forbes has a well-documented history of pay inequity. #journalismjobs
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Our 2024 pay study also found a large racial pay gap, with the unit’s white members making nearly $24,000 more, on average, than their black colleagues. That kind of disparity doesn’t just happen by accident.
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
@forbes.com has a history of pay inequity. It is beyond hypocritical of Forbes to promote itself as a champion of women while paying female staffers nearly $13K less, on avg, than male colleagues in the same roles. www.nyguild.org/front-page-d...
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RACIAL PAY GAP AT FORBES WIDENS, NEW GUILD STUDY FINDS
NEW YORK – Unionized journalists of color at Forbes magazine continue to be paid less than their white counterparts – and that divide has widened, according to …
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
We sent letters to scheduled speakers, asking them to decline to attend in solidarity with us. We want to thank Anita Hill 🏆as she is no longer listed as a speaker. 🎉 We appreciate the support from those who chose not to take part in this farce.
Forbes Power Women's Summit speakers 2025.
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Let's talk about #payinequity. At @Forbes, women make five figures less, on average, than men in the same roles -- and the gap is widening!
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Meanwhile, Forbes management says it will offer 1.25% annual increases -- not even keeping up with inflation.
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Let's talk about cheapness. 80% of the #newsroom has gone more than 18 months without a raise.
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Let's talk about our diminished newsroom. Amid an exodus of talented newsroom staff for greener pastures, Forbes hired only 4 full-time #employees in all of 2024. During the same year, Forbes hired 49 (!!) temps.
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
In honor of the #Forbes400, the Forbes Union is sharing some numbers of our own. @forbes.com has dragged its capitalist feet for far too long. It's time to give the newsroom a fair contract!! #union #journalismjobs
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Stand with the unionized journalists at Forbes.com, who deserve better from Lane. Fair contract NOW! actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...
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Stop the union-busting at Forbes now!
We, the Forbes Union, are a union of more than 100 reporters, editors, producers, and designers, who work hard every day to tell impactful stories about society’s most powerful and important people. ...
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
HAVE YOU SEEN HIM? We were out searching this past weekend for @randalllane.bsky.social, who we hear likes to watch the horses at Saratoga Racecourse. 🏇 .
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
@forbes.com CEO Sherry Phillips said she wanted a reset at the bargaining table. We are still waiting. Tell Sherry Phillips you stand with the workers and want to see the reset at the bargaining table she said she supports. actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...
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Stop the union-busting at Forbes now!
We, the Forbes Union, are a union of more than 100 reporters, editors, producers, and designers, who work hard every day to tell impactful stories about society’s most powerful and important people. ...
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
At the bargaining table, @forbes.com management has resisted any of our common-sense proposals that would ensure full-time staff cover the news our readers deserve.
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
2️⃣takeaways: About 40% of the temps hired by Forbes were part-time; and @forbes.com hired 49 temps in 2024 but only 4 full-time employees 😕, down 90% from the estimated 41 full-time employees hired in 2023. #journalism
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
We crunched the data provided to us by @forbes.com management - and found that management has increasingly shifted to using short-term, part-time, temporary employees instead of replacing those who leave with full-timers.
Forbes Union: Temp Study: Forbes Has a Labor Problem
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
NEW STUDY: We sent @forbes.com CEO Sherry Phillips an invite today to lunch – to discuss our new study about the labor problem at Forbes Union.
Forbes Union: Temp Study: Forbes Has a Labor ProblemForbes Union: Forbes Management is Union Busting
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
So sorry!
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
We're back at the bargaining table after 3 YEARS of feet-dragging from @forbes.com, 3 YEARS of paying $$$$ to Forbes' white-shoe lawyer, 3 YEARS of hissy fits and juvenile name-calling. We are still waiting for the reset Forbes CEO Sherry Phillips promised.
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
@forbes.com CEO Sherry Phillips promised us a reset. This is what we're getting at the bargaining table. #journalism
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The @forbes.com newsroom, the cornerstone of the brand, has shrunk significantly under @randalllane.bsky.social's lack of leadership. A win for our competitors. #media
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Repeat it with us: Diversity is strength. We want a contract where diversity and inclusion at @forbes.com aren't just words. #unionstrong
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