A day after Times negotiators walked out of talks and told the Guild they would come to the next bargaining session with their “final offer” on print and digital contracts, management agreed on Wednesday to a Guild suggestion to bring a well-known mediator into the bargaining process. Photo: Monday's walkout.
Seven striking radio station employees -- five on-air personal personalities, a producer and a receptionist -- are now in month four of a strike against a Rupert Murdoch wannabe in Canada's southeastern province of New Brunswick. The "Saint John 7" are inspiring union members throughout Canada and even globally as people around the world tune in to their online radio station, Radio Free Saint John.
Dayton Guild members have just a few more hours to vote in their historic election for a new contract –- a quarter-century after they negotiated their last contract. Pictured casting her ballot today is Amelia Robinson, the local’s 1st vice president.
In an email interview with Poynter, M.L. Elrick, vice chair of the Free Press unit of the Detroit Guild, says he's worried about the talent the paper will lose in its next round of buyouts. On Monday, management offered buyouts to 155 workers at the Free Press, the Detroit News and the Detroit Media Partnership. "While I applaud the company for finding a humane, even generous, plan to reduce costs, I dread thinking of the experience and institutional knowledge that we will lose. I am also concerned that those who remember what the Free Press once was — a dynamic newspaper with a landmark building, bureaus all over the world, scintillating columnists and page after page stuffed with fun and fascinating stories and features — are disappearing," Elrick said.
Huffington Post Canada's Rachel Mendleson has won the inaugural labor reporting award presented by the Canadian Association of Journalists and the Canadian Media Guild/CWA Canada. Mendleson's piece, “Canada income inequality and the decline of unions,” describes how unionized workers turn "bad jobs into better jobs" that reduce the income gap.
Check out more photos and video from last week's "silent but conspicuous' demonstration by Guild members fighting for a fair contract at The New York Times.
Guild’s Overture to Investor Saves Maine Newspapers, Union Contract and Members’ Jobs
Janelle Hartman —
March 1, 2012— Editor, The Guild Reporter
The story behind the story of how the Portland Newspaper Guild pulled a major victory from the jaws of near-defeat, preserving members' jobs and their union contract, and saving their community's newspapers from bankruptcy.
Visiting TNG-CWA headquarters Feb. 8, six young Russian journalists had lots of questions for Guild President Bernie Lunzer and Secretary-Treasurer Carol Rothman about the role of a union representing media workers.
Don't miss your chance for to attend the Guild's training seminar for new local officers, March 9-12 at the Maritime Institute near Baltimore. Focusing on the nuts and bolts of running a local, the training has proved invaluable to generations of Guild leaders. Register by Feb. 15.
We're adding one week to the deadline to get Broun and Barr award entries in the mail. Because of delays in getting our new NewsGuild.org website up, we know some of you didn't get the information as quickly as we intended. Please make sure your entries are postmarked by next Friday, Feb. 3.
