The New York Guild is asking fellow Guild members as well as other journalists and supporters to help support workers at The New York Times as they fighting wage and benefit cuts. The local has crafted this simple tweet, adn is asking people to put it on their feeds several times today: Retweet this to show support for @nytimes journalists & staff who are fighting wage and benefit cuts #saveourtimes. Photo: Guild members make a group statement Monday in welcoming the Times' new CEO.

A frequently updated compendium of quotes about the Guild, from 1933 to today.

"Have you a Newspaper Guild here? You ought to have one. That's the way you are going to get things -- organize!"

-- General Hugh S. Johnson, FDR's head of the National Recovery Administration, during a conversation with Atlanta "newsmen" in 1933.              (Photo: Gen. Johnson on cover of Time as 1933 Man of the Year)

"It is a pleasure to meet with a group which plays so vital a part in upholding the American tradition of a free and responsible press."

-- U.S. President Harry Truman, addressing the 1950 Guild convention in Washington, D.C.

An innovative summer program run by the Pacific Media Workers Guild gave 16 students a chance to learn about journalism -- and unions -- from the pros. Course organizer Kat Anderson describes how the local put the program together and what it's accomplished, and encourages other locals to contact her if they'd like to give it a try.  A sidebar (below main story) by student Peter Hernandez, who writes about what he learned, the connections he made and how he sees the future of journalism. Photo: Anderson, at far left, works with the summer interns.