Dec. 22, 2017 – Union members at The Daily Beast overwhelmingly ratified a new two-year agreement between the company and The NewsGuild of New York on Dec. 21. Continue reading “NewsGuild of New York Ratifies Two-Year Agreement with The Daily Beast”
CWA-Represented Workers at AT&T to Get $1,000 Bonus
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Chicago Community Newspaper Staff Seeks Support in Unexpected Places
Dec. 19, 2017 – NewsGuild members at three suburban Chicago community newspapers ramped up their fight for a good contract on Nov. 30 by seeking support in unexpected places. Continue reading “Chicago Community Newspaper Staff Seeks Support in Unexpected Places”
Guild Reaches First-of-its-Kind Agreement with GateHouse
Updated Dec. 21, 2017 to reflect that 2018 benefits and premiums will remain at current levels, whether employees’ premiums are currently based on 2017 levels or 2016 levels.
Dec. 14, 2017 – In a first-of-its-kind agreement, The NewsGuild-CWA reached a “global settlement” with GateHouse Media on Dec. 12 that improves wages and protects health benefits at 16 GateHouse-owned newspapers. Continue reading “Guild Reaches First-of-its-Kind Agreement with GateHouse”
Reuters Workers Overwhelmingly Ratify Contract
Dec. 15, 2017 – NewsGuild members at Thomson Reuters voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new contract on Dec. 14, with 241 casting ballots in favor of the agreement and 9 voting against. Continue reading “Reuters Workers Overwhelmingly Ratify Contract”
NY Times Employees Ratify Four-Year Agreement
Dec. 7, 2017 – Employees of the New York Times have ratified a four-year contract, the NewsGuild of New York has announced. Continue reading “NY Times Employees Ratify Four-Year Agreement”
DFM Workers: Stop pillaging our community newspapers to finance your mansion buying sprees!
Nov. 21, 2017 – Employees of news organizations owned by Alden Global Capital, a shadowy hedge fund that now controls 200 newspapers across the country, are telling head honchos Randall Smith and Heath Freeman: Stop pillaging our community newspapers to finance your mansion buying sprees!
Sign their petition here.
Washington Post Workers Demand a Fair Contract
Close to 100 Washington Post employees and their supporters picketed outside the paper’s office on Nov. 14 to protest management’s paltry bargaining proposals and to demand a fair contract.
“We want Jeff Bezos to be a leader and to understand that investing in the people at the Post is investing in the future of the Post,” said Robert Struckman, president of the Washington-Baltimore News Guild. Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post, is estimated to be worth more than $81 billion and is ranked among the world’s richest people.
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DFM Workers Expand Coordinated Campaign
Nov. 6, 2017 – NewsGuild members at papers owned by Digital First Media (DFM) expanded a coordinated campaign in recent weeks by exposing the devastating effect that Alden Global Capital, the hedge fund that controls DFM, has had on local news coverage and journalists’ jobs.
Workers at DFM’s 12 unionized papers recently unleashed two separate two-day Twitter storms to call attention to the corrosive effect of Alden’s management of the papers: Layoffs at twice the industry average. Gutting the papers’ assets by selling buildings and equipment. Entire communities left without news coverage. Continue reading “DFM Workers Expand Coordinated Campaign”
AP Employees Press Demand for a Fair Contract
Oct. 12, 2017 – NewsGuild-CWA members at The Associated Press Washington Bureau pressed their demands for a fair contract as they greeted managers and Guild colleagues outside a dinner organized by the AP on Oct. 10. The dinner coincided with an editors’ conference. Continue reading “AP Employees Press Demand for a Fair Contract”