Sue Ogronki, an Associated Press photographer in Oklahoma and a Guild member, was at Plaza Towers Elementary School on Monday as children were rescued."Parents and neighborhood volunteers stood in a line and passed the rescued children from one set of arms to another, carrying them out of harm's...
After nearly five months of negotiations, the Guild bargaining team has reached a tentative contract with the Seattle Times that includes a 1.5 percent wage increase next year and a lump-sum bonus in 2015. A vote is expected within two weeks; the bargaining team is unanimously recommending...
The Guild bargaining committee at the Hawaii Tribune-Herald in Hilo met with the company in Honolulu last week to attempt to narrow the scope of negotiations to critical issues including wages, job security, health care and management rights. The union offered compromises but the only one the...
No raises for more than five years and skyrocketing increases in health care costs mean making "decisions I wish I didn't have to make," writes California court interpreter and single mom Katy Van Sant. Her story illustrates why the Pacific Media Guild-represented interpeters are fighting so...
Former journalist, Canadian Media Guild officer and sector vice president Percy Hatfield won his party's nomination Thursday to run for Parliament from Windsor-Tecumeh, saying he's convinced he can win the general election and turn his area back into a New Democratic Party stronghold. Photo:...
For the second year, the Guild is sponsoring a photography contest as part of the Labor Heritage Foundation’s Great Labor Arts Exchange in June. The aim is to encourage photography that shows union and community activism, in the spirit of the theme of the festival: “Gonna Take Us All: Labor and...
An Alaska Superior Court Judge has ordered Tea Party politician Joe Miller to pay more than $85,000 of Alaska Dispatch’s attorney fees and costs stemming from the news organization’s 2010 lawsuit to make public Miller’s employment records during his time as a part-time government lawyer. “Miller’s conduct, which included taking inconsistent positions, failing to disclose information during discovery, and his procedural filing, which the record did not support, all caused unnecessary delay and costs for both Alaska Dispatch” and the Fairbanks North Star Borough, the judge wrote in her ruling.
Jane Mayer examines the story behind the PBS documentary "Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream," and how it led conservative billionaire David Koch to pull funding from public television.
New York Guild negotiators went to the bargaining table last week with considerable compromises on sick time and other key issues that would be part of a first contract for Kaplan English as a second language teachers. "We were cautiously optimistic when Kaplan representatives promised to respond with reasonable counteroffers," the local reports. "But after taking a brief caucus all the KIC (Kaplan International Centers) team came back with was more of the same: stonewalling and a lot of carefully worded nothing. In fact, some of what they offered didn’t even meet the soon-to-be minimum requirements of the law. Isn’t that a KIC?"
A new reason not to use anti-union Verizon Wireless as your cell service provider: As part of the ongoing phone-snooping scandal, media reports say the company handed over AP journalists' cell phone records to the federal government last year, no questions asked.
No raises for more than five years and skyrocketing increases in health care costs mean making "decisions I wish I didn't have to make," writes California court interpreter and single mom Katy Van Sant. Her story illustrates why the Pacific Media Guild-represented interpeters are fighting so hard for fair wages and benefits. Photo: Katy and her 4-year-old daughter, Lyla. Photo by David Bacon.
Former journalist, Canadian Media Guild officer and sector vice president Percy Hatfield won his party's nomination Thursday to run for Parliament from Windsor-Tecumeh, saying he's convinced he can win the general election and turn his area back into a New Democratic Party stronghold. Photo: Screen shot from interviews with Hatfield.
For the second year, the Guild is sponsoring a photography contest as part of the Labor Heritage Foundation’s Great Labor Arts Exchange in June. The aim is to encourage photography that shows union and community activism, in the spirit of the theme of the festival: “Gonna Take Us All: Labor and Community United!” Entries need to be submitted by regular mail by June 3. Photo: Eugene Guild marches in a city parade.
Journalism is changing, writes Washington Post blogger Chris Cillizza. "This is not breaking news. That change has been spurred by drastic changes in the way people consume information. Mobile devices are the preferred medium by which the young (and not so young) get their news fix. Twitter and Facebook have altered the way news is broken and covered. And so on and so forth. Journalists have to change with those times. And that means looking for alternative storytelling paths."
