No raises for more than five years and skyrocketing increases in health care costs mean making "decisions I wish I didn't have to make," writes California court interpreter and single mom Katy Van Sant. Her story illustrates why the Pacific Media Guild-represented interpeters are fighting so...
Former journalist, Canadian Media Guild officer and sector vice president Percy Hatfield won his party's nomination Thursday to run for Parliament from Windsor-Tecumeh, saying he's convinced he can win the general election and turn his area back into a New Democratic Party stronghold. Photo:...
For the second year, the Guild is sponsoring a photography contest as part of the Labor Heritage Foundation’s Great Labor Arts Exchange in June. The aim is to encourage photography that shows union and community activism, in the spirit of the theme of the festival: “Gonna Take Us All: Labor and...
Workers' rights activists filled the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing Thursday to highlight the urgency of confirming a five-member, bipartisan National Labor Relations Board. "Working people know that a full-strength NLRB is the first step to justice...
The vast majority of newsroom employees in the Rockford (Illinois) Register Star newsroom have signed authorization cards seeking representation from the United Media Guild. The UMG has asked Register Star to recognize the union and begin collective bargaining, but expects that owner Gatehouse...
The Newspaper Guild-CWA and its local that represents AP journalists, The News Media Guild, demands that the U.S. Justice Department return all telephone records that it obtained from phones -- including some home and cell phones – of Associated Press reporters and editors.
Congratulations to Ben Shannon, winner of the Canadian Media Guild’s first video contest about the good that unions do. "The role of unions is something I feel passionate about, so the contest was a chance for me to express that. I am very happy that I won!" says Ben, who is a senior graphic designer for the CBC.
CWA is commending President Obama for putting forward three additional nominations to the National Labor Relations Board, and urging Senate leaders to act quickly. The nominations, together with two previously announced, would restore the NLRB to full status and will ensure that a functioning board can enforce workers’ rights on the job.
Consumer Reports magazine has become America's second worklplace to accept an innovative defined benefit pension plan that will guarantee its retirees lifetime incomes without exposing the company to unforeseen risk and volatility.
New York Guild members at Consumer Reports magazine have overwhelmingly ratified a new three-year contract that preserves a defined benefit pension plan and gives them a wage-increase and bonus package totaling 6 percent. Photo: Guild leaders notify CR management of the ratification vote.
In the early stages of talks with the State Journal-Register, the new Springfield, Ill., unit of the United Media Guild is building community support -- much needed, leaders say, "after almost six years of no pay raises and continued challenges to put out good journalism each and every day." The bargaining team reports "lively" sessions last week with negotiators for owner, Gatehouse. "We believe we are planting seeds that will grow over the 'scorched-earth' position staked out thus far by GateHouse."
The hero of Kingston! Guild member Don Treat got a special standing ovation today at a party honoring the Daily Freeman Guild members who are losing their jobs thanks to the JRC-21st CMH "bankruptcy" and "sale." After getting consultant Mark Kramer's letter threatening employees with job, pay and benefit cuts, Don decided he'd had enough. What he wrote back to Kramer, essentially every journalist dreams of saying at least once to a boss or corporate bean-counter, was presented to him today framed on a plaque. He's pictured with it here, with Kingston Guild President Patricia Doxsey.
"More Diversity, Less Consolidation: How to Change the Media" was one of the opening sessions at the National Media Reform Conference, with a panel that featured Guild President Bernie Lunzer, former FCC commissioner Michael Copps, Chanelle Hardy from the National Urban League, Jason Lagria from the Asian American Justice Center and Joseph Torres from Free Press. Stay tuned for a Sunday session also featured President Lunzer: "Labor Unions: MIA in the Media."
The announcement this week that the Cleveland Plain Dealer would continue publishing seven days a week but would reduce its home delivery to three days is bittersweet for Guild members who launched the "Save the Plain Dealer" campaign last fall. “We were expecting that the paper would be reduced to three days a week,” Guild activist John Mangels told The New York Times. “We’re glad that the paper listened to the campaign and the voices of Cleveland to keep the paper a daily, to keep it publishing seven days a week. But that victory is tempered by a lot of things. The cuts in home delivery and the layoffs are going to reduce our ability to cover news in Cleveland.”
