Dec. 12, 2018 – Workers at the Daily Hampshire Gazette and Valley Advocate in Northampton, Mass., voted in favor of unionizing on Wednesday.
Shortly after voting ended at 8 p.m., Bera Dunau, a member of the Organizing Committee, emerged from the office where the votes were counted and declared, “We have a union!” Continue reading “Gazette, Advocate employees vote to unionize”
For Immediate Release: Dec. 12, 2018
Contact: Dave Eisenstadter (603) 762-1273
Dane Kuttler (201) 835-4602
Workers at the Daily Hampshire Gazette and Valley Advocate voted in a convincing majority in favor of unionizing. The Pioneer Valley NewsGuild can now begin the productive work of negotiation with Newspapers of New England for a fair contract. Continue reading “Gazette, Advocate employees vote to unionize”
Dec. 4, 2018 – Journalists at three Maryland community newsrooms – the Capital Gazette, the Carroll County Times and the Baltimore Sun Media Group – won voluntary union recognition from their employer on Dec. 3. Continue reading “Capital Gazette, Carroll County Times, Baltimore Sun Media Group Win Voluntary Union Recognition”
Dec. 4, 2018 – Workers at the Daily Hampshire Gazette and Valley Advocate won an important ally on Dec. 3, when Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) declared support for their union organizing efforts. Continue reading “Sen. Elizabeth Warren Supports Workers’ Efforts to Form Union at Daily Hampshire Gazette, Valley Advocate”
Nov. 29, 2018 – The staff of Hoy Los Angeles petitioned the Los Angeles Times for union recognition as part of the L.A. Times Guild, a local of The NewsGuild-CWA, on Nov. 28. Continue reading “Staff of Hoy Petitions L.A. Times for Union Recognition”
Nov. 29, 2018 – Editorial employees at PC Magazine, Mashable, Geek.com and AskMen have signed on to a union organizing effort in overwhelming numbers, the NewsGuild of New York has announced. They are asking parent company Ziff Davis to voluntarily recognize the union. Continue reading “Journalists at Mashable, PC Magazine, Geek.com & AskMen Announce Union Organizing Campaign”
Nov. 28, 2018 – Workers at the Center for Public Integrity joined the Washington-Baltimore News Guild, Local 32035, this week, after management agreed to voluntarily recognize the union. Established in 1989, the Center is one of the nation’s oldest nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news organizations in the country. Its mission is to reveal abuses of power, corruption and betrayal of the public trust by powerful public and private institutions. Continue reading “Workers at Center for Public Integrity Win Voluntary Union Recognition”
Nov. 27, 2018 – A delegation of community leaders visited the offices of the Daily Hampshire Gazette on Nov. 27 to show support for the workers’ efforts at the Gazette and the Valley Advocate to win union recognition. Continue reading “‘Whatever the opposite of loneliness is, that’s what we have right now.’”
By Martha Waggoner, Guild International Chair
It’s a big accomplishment to get a first contract, as four recently organized units within The NewsGuild-CWA have done.
But to get contract language that’s rare, if not unprecedented within TNG, well, that’s cause for even more of a reason for celebration.
The contracts for units at Gatehouse newspapers in Springfield and Rockford in Illinois, and at Lakeland and Sarasota in Florida, include language that protect the beats of female reporters when they return from maternity leave. The language says not only do the women return to work, but they also return to their same beats.
The language came from bargaining at Springfield, where the local’s bargaining team noticed that some women were assigned less prestigious beats when they returned from maternity leave. One reporter had burst into tears in the newsroom when she learned she was pregnant because she had seen a colleague lose her beat after her pregnancy.
Continue reading “4 new TNG contracts include rare maternity leave language”
