Two of our Monterey Herald unit members are winners in the 2014 CNPA Better Newspaper Contest. Each of these entries has won 1st or 2nd place in its category among papers of the Herald’s size.
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Guild executive committee meeting rescheduled
Local 39521’s executive committee meeting scheduled for March 21 has been cancelled due to lack of quorum. Please make plans to attend the April 25 meeting which is a combined meeting of the executive committee, representative assembly and general membership.
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American Sign Language interpreters are voting on first contract
At long last, our American Sign Language Interpreters United unit has agreed tentatively to contract terms with employer Purple Communications. Our ASL interpreter sisters and brothers are holding ratification votes this week. The first one was in Oakland on Monday. Results will be announced once members in all four locations have voted. For a great […]
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Guild organizes freelance social media workers
SMT recently signed a one-year Memorandum of Understanding with the Guild that will give the company’s freelancers a contract and the protection of a union, an agreement that may be the first of its kind in the U.S.
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Albert Morch, colorful SF Examiner society columnist, dies at 85
Albert Morch, Colorful SF Examiner Society Columnist, Dies in Sleep on Christmas Morning
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Newspaper Guild changes name; CWA President praises media workers
The Newspaper Guild sector conference delegates voted to change the name of The Newspaper Guild-CWA to The NewsGuild-CWA, reflecting media and union changes.
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Members win the gold
It has been a bountiful awards season for Guild members and friends — well-deserved accolades all around.
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’94 strike treasurer bore witness to solidarity
Unless excused, a person had to walk the picket line to receive a strike check. A week’s striking was worth only $200, no matter how much one’s normal pay was.
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The legacy of the great San Francisco newspaper strike of 1994
The solidarity demonstrated at the bargaining table and on the streets of San Francisco inspired the international unions involved to form a national level council of newspaper unions — the Newspaper Industry Coordinating Committee, or NICC. NICC fostered cooperation among the Guild, International Typographical Union, Teamsters and Graphic Communications International Union (pressmen) that had never occurred on a national level.
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TNG president requests meeting with Berkeley mayor to ensure journalist safety
The Newspaper Guild (TNG) president Bernie Lunzer sent a letter on Monday to Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates and Police Chief Michael Meehan that expressed outrage about the brutal treatment that several journalists suffered at the hands of law enforcement officers during protests in Berkeley over the weekend.
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Journalists condemn Berkeley police brutality against press
On Saturday night, several members of the media that were covering the Berkeley protests of police brutality in New York and Missouri were battered by police, even while displaying their credentials. Berkeley police used batons against these journalists, striking at least one in the head.
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Strikers remember rain, pain and some gain
A strike had been percolating for weeks before 2,600 workers from 11 unions at the Examiner, the Chronicle and the San Francisco Newspaper Agency walked off the job Nov. 1, 1994. Four days of round-the-clock negotiations hit a logjam over salary and job security, but by then, a solid structure had been formed for a strike.
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Reporter retrospective on 1994 strike
There were serious conflicts in the pressroom and distribution system, and the mailers (by this time we had figured out these were the people who assembled the papers and preprinted inserts into bundles for delivery) still had legitimate issues twenty-six years after the 1968 strike.
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1994 San Francisco news strike pushed limits and ushered in online media
By Larry Hatfield
The 1994 strike was remarkable for a variety of reasons, the most profound of which may have been that it was a seminal event in the development of online media. Both sides made significant contributions.
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20th anniversary of the SF newspaper strike
Join us for a special event at the Guild to remember this important event in newspaper and union history. We will have a new video documenting the 11-day strike and special guests (rumor has it that a couple harmonicas might come out). This reception is November 14 from 6 pm to 8 pm at the […]
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