Guild-represented court interpreters in California joined with SEIU members and other allies Tuesday to protest a nearly $2 billion boondoogle, a statewide court case management system that is years overdue, 800 percent over budget and has cost both jobs and long delays in due process. As workers demonstrated, the state's Judicial Council voted to halt further deployment of the plan. Photo: Brandon Scovill of the California Federation of Interpreters/Pacific Media Workers Guild. Photos by Luke Thomas/Fog City Journal.

Lee Enterprises has awarded a $500,000 bonus to CEO Mary Junck and another $250,000 to the company's CFO. The board's decision was made in private after the public  shareholders' meeting earlier this month where the daughter of a deceased St. Louis Post-Dispatch retired described how her father suffered after Lee broke its promise to maintain retiree health care. Junck told Erica Douglas that the Lee couldn't afford to continue covering Robert Douglas and other retirees. Click here to read the Guild Reporter story about Robert Douglas and here to read more about Erica's testimony. Photo: Junck watches from podium as Erica Dougas tells her father's story to Lee shareholders.

Canadian Press workers represented by the Canadian Media Guild voted overwhelmingly Monday in favor of a new contract, the first since the national news agency shifted from a cooperative to a for-profit corporation. The full contract is here on the CMG website.