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...
The NFL labor dispute. The growing backlash against public pensions and health benefits. Wisconsin. The modern-day debates over outdated labor laws have done much to raise awareness of collective bargaining and what it means in an era of historically low union membership. Maybe -- just maybe -- says NLRB chairwoman Wilma Liebman, labor law's "revival or revitalization is still a very good possibility."
Daytona Beach News Journal Publisher Michael Redding marked the one-year anniversary of the newspaper under his co-ownership with an offer to most of the 400-some remaining employees of the paper, including editors and reporters: Anyone selling a three-month subscription to the paper would get a $25 bonus, or $50 for a six month subscription. Anyone selling $100 worth of advertising would get $50. Staffers have had no raises in four years and were promised none this year.
Zite pulls Web content from a wide variety of sites, reformats it, and displays it -- without the ads -- within its app. But the real value of the app is its ability to predict which stories will appeal to each user. That's made a lot of newspaper publishers unhappy, but we in media should think about what led us to a point at which major news outlets are attacking a company that is creating something they should be offering in the first place: an innovative, personalized news source.
CWA Canada members who work at the Windsor Star are one step closer to a strike deadline. A conciliator agreed today, during a conference call with representatives of three unions and management, to issue a no-board report. "What this means is that we now will skip conciliation and go directly to mediation," says David Esposti, the CWA Canada staff representative who has been involved in the negotiations. Mediation is scheduled for May 10 − 13.
New York Times Co. honchos took slight pay cuts but still scored staggering multimillion-dollar compensation packages last year even as the beleaguered Big Apple broadsheet’s circulation continued to fall. Times publisher Arthur “Pinch†Sulzberger Jr. was the highest paid bigwig, raking in just over $6 million in total compensation in 2010, according to the company’s latest annual meeting and proxy statement sent to investors.
In 1964 the Guardian's editor relocated from the newspaper's birthplace in Manchester to new offices in London. It was a risky move but one that almost certainly saved the organisation in the long run. Now, 45 years later, the Guardian is making another move – this time relocating several senior staff from London to New York to head an international digital expansion of Guardian.co.uk. Is it on a par with the shift from Manchester to London? It could be.
A federal lawsuit was filed Friday over Maine Gov. Paul LePage's decision to remove a 36-foot mural depicting the state's labor history from the Labor Department. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court, seeks to confirm the mural's current location, ensure that the artwork is adequately preserved, and ultimately to restore it to the Department of Labor's lobby in Augusta.
Bahraini authorities lifted a ban on the main opposition newspaper Sunday, after its three top editors resigned to save the paper from a campaign to muzzle anti-government media and crack down on the Shiite opposition in the Sunni-ruled Gulf nation. Al-Wasat, the country's most popular newspaper, did not appear Sunday after Bahrain's Information Ministry ordered it to close down. Al-Wasat's online edition was also blocked.
