News Media Guild President Vin Cherwoo dies

News Media Guild President Vinay Cherwoo, who labored for decades to improve the lives of generations of media workers, died Thursday after a long illness, his family said. He was 56. 

Cherwoo was a New York-based sports editor at The Associated Press, where over the course of three decades he developed an expertise and deep knowledge of many professional sports. His service to the Guild started in the 1990s, when he was elected to the union’s Executive Committee and served as a rank-and-file negotiator on many contracts with the AP.

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Guild asks Spanish labor minister to stop intimidation of staff by EFE

Media Contact: Tony Winton, News Media Guild, 212-869-9296 | Guild@newsmediaguild.org

NEW YORK – U.S employees of EFE, Spain’s public news agency, asked Spain’s Second Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, to intervene to help stop what they say is abusive intimidation of staff after they protested a management decision to walk away from decade-old policy of promoting staff from within.

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Democracy Works staffers approve first labor contract with News Media Guild

NEW YORK, Jan 24, 2025 – Workers at Democracy Works, a nonpartisan voter education organization, ratified their first labor contract with the News Media Guild, the union announced. The pact, ratified Thursday, guarantees yearly pay raises, establishes job security, and secures other important workplace rights at the leading civic technology nonprofit organization.

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