Feb. 22, 2018 – The Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh broke with an 84-year precedent in January to decry an editorial that appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Martin Luther King Day. Continue reading “Pittsburgh Guild Repudiates Post-Gazette Editorial”
Feb. 22, 2018 – NewsGuild organizing campaigns are taking shape across the country — among the journalists of the Casper Start-Tribune, the staff of Fight for 15, the workers at Lambda Legal, and the software engineers at Lanetix, Inc. Continue reading “Organizing Campaigns Take Off!”
Feb. 22, 2018 – NewsGuild members at three suburban Chicago community newspapers have ramped up their fight for a good contract by seeking support in unexpected places. Continue reading “Staff of Chicago Community Papers Seeks Support in Unexpected Places”
Feb. 22, 2018 – Plagued by low pay and a lack of job security, English-as-a-second-language teachers at Education First outside Boston were the first of the company’s U.S. affiliates to form a union. In January, after almost two years of negotiations, they ratified their first collective bargaining agreement. Continue reading “Bargaining & Settlements – Bytes & bits: EF Teachers Win First Contract”
Feb. 22, 2018 – NewsGuild-CWA members at Jacobin, a Brooklyn-based online and print socialist magazine, overwhelmingly ratified a first contract between the company and The NewsGuild of New York. Continue reading “Bargaining & Settlements – Bytes & bits: Jacobin Members Approve First Contract”
Feb. 22, 2018 – Employees of the Chicago Reader unanimously ratified a one-year contract in October, resolving a lengthy labor dispute that began under its previous owner, Tronc. The members of the Chicago News Guild reached the deal with the labor-friendly investor group that purchased the Reader and the Chicago Sun-Times in July. Continue reading “Bargaining & Settlements – Bytes & bits: Chicago Reader Staff Makes Big Gains”
Feb. 22, 2018 – Union members at The Daily Beast overwhelmingly ratified a two-year contract between the company and The NewsGuild of New York. Continue reading “Bargaining & Settlements – Bytes & bits: Daily Beast Employees Ratify Contract”
Feb. 22, 2018 – NewsGuild members at Thompson Reuters voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new contract in December, after three years of intense negotiations with management. Continue reading “Bargaining & Settlements – Bytes & bits: Reuters Workers Vote Yes on Contract”
Feb. 22, 2018 – Members of the New York Times unit of The NewsGuild of New York ratified a four-year contract in December that covers much of the newsroom and business staff. Continue reading “Bargaining & Settlements – Bytes & bits: Four-Year Agreement Ratified at NY Times”
Feb. 22, 2018 – Contract settlements around the Guild cover employees at the Bakersfield Californian, Lexington Herald-Leader, Bowling Green (Ohio) production plant of Dow Jones, Florida AFL-CIO, Chicago AFT, RLM Arts and DLR International in Ottawa. A database of collective bargaining agreements is available for local leaders. Contact your local president for information on how to access them. Continue reading “Bargaining & Settlements – Bytes & bits: Bits”
