Monterey County Herald members delivered a petition for a fair pay increase and a reasonable cap on what employees pay for health care to publisher Gary Omernick.
Read More40-year pinning
Margo Brenes, long-time Guild membership coordinator, celebrated 40 years of union membership Tuesday.
Read MoreElection Committee certifies results
The Guild’s Local Election Committee has certified the results of last month’s election, finding that there were no procedural or substantive grounds for setting the results aside.
Read MoreFor better or worse? Press coverage of low-wage workers’ movement
Thousands of non-union fast food workers across the U.S. have taken to the streets demanding higher pay. Media reporting on this fledgling labor movement is instructive.
Read MoreUnity Slate wins with 60 percent of vote
Local election officers have issued a tentative certification of results declaring Executive Officer Carl Hall and the “Unity Slate” were the clear victors over the all-interpreter “A More Perfect Union Slate” for leadership of the Pacific Media Workers Guild.
Read MoreRebuilding effort starts with new year
The Unity Slate wins Guild election. Winners were declared at 7:32 am this morning at the Guild office by Local Election Committee members.
Read MoreLocal election committee rules that all-CFI slate used union video improperly
The Local Election Committee ruled that a union video was improperly used for electioneering by the “A More Perfect Union” slate.
Read MoreHawai’i interpreters speak up for standards
What sense does it make to train incoming court interpreters if the trainers themselves aren’t certified court interpreters? The Hawai’i Interpreter Action Network asks this in a letter to the Hon. Mark Recktenwald, chief justice of the Hawai’i Supreme Court.
Read MoreRules for Guild election and recent updates
The Local Election Committee, through the Executive Committee, submitted rules to the Representative Assembly on November 23, 2013, which were approved with certain amendments. The amendments are reflected in the document.
Read MoreFreelance unit RA delegate candidate statement
Candidate statement for Freelance unit Representative Assembly delegate
Read MoreFreelance unit RA delegate candidate statement
Candidate statement for Freelance unit Representative Assembly delegate
Read MoreASLIU members say mediation with management a flop
A meeting with a federal mediator last Friday ended with no real progress being made in the negotiations between Purple Communications and ASLIU.
Read MoreUC Berkeley Labor Center weighs in about Guild future
After months of study and meetings, consultant Paul Krissel, a veteran union leader and adjunct faculty member at the UC Berkeley Labor Center, produced a thoughtful and detailed report about the history and current state of Local 39521.
Read MoreOur ASLIU members are participating in our election – rules the Election Committee
The Pacific Media Workers Guild Election Committee has determined that the complaint or protest regarding the membership status of ASL interpreters working for Purple Communications is without merit, and that those workers are members in good standing. As such, they do have the right to vote or run for office in the 2013 Local 39521 […]
Read MoreNOTICE of re-opening of nominations for CFI unit leadership
By the November 15, 2013 decision of the Local Election Committee of this union, Pacific Media Workers Guild, nominations for California Federation of Interpreters (CFI) unit leadership are re-opened, in order to be in line with the schedule for nominations set by the Pacific Media Workers Guild bylaws on nominations and elections. Therefore, the nominations […]
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