THE GUILD WORKS FOR YOU

Why organize?

I want management to listen to my concerns.

            I want to protect and improve my wages and benefits.

            I want to be treated fairly.

            I want to make my company a better place to work.           

What a union can do

            Provide employees a voice in their working conditions.

            Provide enforceable rights, wages and benefits in a written contract.

Union organizing is hard work. But you can do it! It requires lots of one-on-one contact with your coworkers. It requires involvement and participation. When successful, organizing can be one of the most emotionally rewarding events you will experience.

How to organize

1. Talk to co-workers you trust and determine whether they are interested in a union.

2. Determine how many people work for your employer in each department and job

3. Determine who the supervisors are.

4. Do NOT send out leaflets or call a meeting. Once management gets wind of interest in a union they will launch a union avoidance campaign.

5. Contact the Tim Schick at The Newspaper Guild.

Phone: 202 434-1271

Email: Tschick@cwa-union.org

The Guild will work with you to evaluate your situation. When it is determined you are ready to move into an organizing campaign, the Guild will guide you through that process.

About the TNG-CWA

The Newspaper Guild is an industrial sector within the Communications Workers of America. We represent 28,000 members in the news, media, information and communications industries in the US, Canada and Puerto Rico.

Mission Statement of TNG-CWA

"The purpose of The Newspaper Guild shall be to:

  ♦  Advance the economic interests and to improve the working conditions of its members;

  ♦  Guarantee, as far as it is able, equal employment and advancement opportunity in the newspaper industry and constant honesty in news, editorials, advertising, and business practices;

  ♦  Raise the standards of journalism and ethics of the industry;

  ♦  Foster friendly cooperation with all other workers;

  ♦  Promote industrial unionism in the jurisdiction of the Guild.

            -- TNG-CWA Constitution Article 1

Link to: the law on unions