Guild members at the Washington Post recently lined the hallway outside bargaining to stand with laid off colleagues. The company announced dozens of layoffs of our members on the business side, including members in Client Solutions and Public Relations. Those workers explained what they did for the Post while fighting for improvements to the severance package.
Continue reading “Newsletter: NBC illegally laid off members (again)”
By Martha Waggoner, TNG international chair
Organizing will be a main focus of national and local leaders when they gather for the 80th convening of The NewsGuild-CWA.
That’s because TNG saw an unprecedented year of organizing in 2018. We organized more than 20 workplaces in 2018, which means more than 1,400 people, mostly media workers, have or will have the protections of union contracts. Continue reading “TNG sector conference to focus on organizing”
