Workers and supporters picket during a CBS News strike outside CBS News offices in New York on 17 March 2026. Photograph: Bing Guan/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesView image in fullscreenWorkers and supporters picket during a CBS News strike outside CBS News offices in New York on 17 March 2026. Photograph: Bing Guan/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesCBS News streaming employees reach deal on new contract after walkoutUnion has reached a tentative agreement for a three-year contract after holding a 24-hour walkout in March
Employees of the CBS News streaming channel CBS News 24/7, who held a 24-hour walkout last month amid an impasse in contract negotiations, have reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year contract.
About 60 CBS News employees are part of the union. In the coming days, they will vote to ratify the new agreement. More details about the agreement will be provided after the agreement is ratified, the union said.
The workers, which are represented Writers Guild of America East, had organized walkouts in front of the main CBS News building in Manhattan and at KPIX-TV CBS News Bay Area in San Francisco, California.
More than 95% of employees had signed a strike pledge on 10 March, a day after the unit’s contract expired, asking for “guaranteed wage increases, meaningful overtime rules, protected union jurisdiction, and flexible work from home protections”.
The walkout had come amid broader uncertainty about the fate of CBS News employees. Ten days after the union signed the strike pledge, the network laid off 6% of employees and shuttered its historic CBS News Radio service.
More layoffs at the Bari Weiss-led network are expected in the event that parent company Paramount Skydance’s pending acquisition of CNN parent company Warner Bros Discovery is approved, as part of a broader strategy to achieve $6bn in cost-saving “synergies” from the deal.
