According to The Hill, there's infighting within the Members of the Chicago Tribune chapter of NewsGuild-CWA and their national leadership group. 

The members state that they've been abandoned during buyout discussions with the paper's new owner, Alden Global Capital. 

"We have a situation in Chicago that should alarm each of you, even if you aren't in agreement with our current position," Gregory Pratt, the president of the Chicago Tribune chapter of the NewsGuild, wrote in a memo. 

"TL;DR, the guild has abandoned us and left us without representation at the bargaining table to punish us for a local decision."

Chicago Tribune investigative reporter Todd Lighty went on Twitter to protest the Guild's national leaders' decision. 

"The News Guild lacks the resources and talent to fully represent us and all the newly unionized newsrooms," Lighty tweeted. "We will not give up and will fight on without national's support."

In the letter tweeted by labor reporter Mike Elk, Pratt said the issues started after the local chapter opposed the national leaders regarding the technical structure of the joint team that would discuss buyouts with Alden Global Capital. 

"Right now, we have representation at the local level until noon," Pratt wrote. "And then it's up in the air."