By the Digital First Media Workers
DENVER — Employees at one of the nation’s biggest news organizations have joined to fight Wall Street’s ongoing attack on quality journalism.
Continue reading “Standing up for journalism at DFM papers around the country”
By Benjamin Mullin
Poynter.org
During his trip to the Korean Demilitarized Zone Friday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson excluded the pool reporter representing U.S. networks from a meeting, allowing a team from Fox News to be admitted instead. Read the full story on Poynter.org –>
By the Pacific Media Workers Guild
The determination is a major — though preliminary — win for the Guild, which has been working to help immigration interpreters fighting for their job rights.
Officials at the National Labor Relations Board have found that immigration court interpreters should be considered employees rather than independent contractors.
The determination is a major — though preliminary — win for the Guild, which has been working to help immigration interpreters fighting for their job rights. Continue reading “NLRB Says Immigration Court Interpreters Are Employees”
Professional staff at the Roosevelt Institute, a think tank to advance the vision of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, has moved to unionize with The NewsGuild of New York.
In a mission statement presented to senior management, Roosevelt Institute employees cited the importance of the Institute’s nationally recognized work on social and economic equality, while recognizing the need to establish workplace protections that promote the long-term health and stability of the organization.
“We believe that by unionizing we will make the entire organization stronger, and deepen our commitment to the values we espouse through our work,” said Katie Kirchner, Program Associate. Continue reading “Professionals at Roosevelt Institute Organize a Union”
The NewsGuild-CWA has a lengthy history in the pursuit of the importance of social justice. Starting with Heywood Broun, who wrote a column calling for a union for journalists, the Guild has always been out front advocating for human rights. Historically, Guild conventions, whose delegates are elected by local members in a secret ballot, routinely adopt resolutions calling for equal rights and laws for all citizens. Continue reading “Community Activism”
Movements do not happen without building coalitions. And, for change to happen, it takes the work of many constituent groups. The NewsGuild is not only a labor union advocating for worker rights. The Guild also fights for a free and fair press and civil and human rights for all. As members of such coalitions, the Guild helps build a movement by supporting other groups efforts in areas where common ideals exist. Sometimes the Guild is a leader on issues, sometimes a partner, and sometimes the Guild supports others’ fights for fairness.
Click here to view a list of links to unions and other coalition partners
Thirteen Guild-CWA bargaining units representing newsroom, advertising, circulation, and production departments at Digital First Media opened joint negotiations for a wage increase Thursday in Denver.
Union negotiators proposed a $1 per hour raise for all employees effective July 1. Management offered no proposal, stating that budgeting is under way for the next fiscal year that begins July 1, and that managers won’t be prepared to begin serious negotiations until June. Continue reading “DFM Wage Reopener Negotiations”
Following on the heels of a vote in Lakeland, journalists at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune voted by a margin of 22–16 to become the second Florida paper to become members of The NewsGuild-CWA. Both papers are owned by GateHouse Media. Continue reading “Sarasota Paper Becomes Second Guild Newsroom in Florida”
Anyone who reads the works of the winners of the Freedom awards for 2015 would see the state of reporting is not sad, but amazing. At a ceremony held December 7, 2016, reporter Terrence McCoy was awarded a plaque and a $5,000 check for winning the Heywood Broun award for a Washington Post series, “Freddy Gray’s Life a Study on the Effect of Lead Paint on Poor Blacks.” Continue reading “TNG-CWA Freedom Fund Awards Ceremony”
Employees at one of the nation’s biggest news organizations are launching a campaign to fight Wall Street’s ongoing attack on quality journalism.
Members of The NewsGuild-CWA announced today a new phase of the #NEWSMATTERS campaign at Digital First Media (DFM), the second-largest chain of newspapers and online news sites in the country. Continue reading “Digital First Media Workers Call for Alden to Invest in Quality Journalism”
