Thanks partly to the Pacific Media Workers Guild’s efforts, a city charter amendment aimed at improving transparency in local government and politics will go before Oakland voters in November.
Read MoreGuild recovers artwork’s distinguished heritage
For three decades, a set of black-and-white linocuts hung on the exposed brick walls of the Guild office, rarely eliciting more than passing interest. Each bore the signature of Leopoldo Méndez.
Read MoreTribute to Jim Drindell, BATU member
Jim Drindell, longtime member of the Bay Area Typographical Union Local 21 and later our merged union, died on June 10. His dear friend Stephanie Hedgecoke wrote this tribute.
Read MoreKen Prairie, longtime Typo rep, dead at 86
Ken Prairie (left), a veteran California-based CWA staff representative who helped newspaper printers through strikes, mergers and technology upheavals, died at his home on Sunday. He was 86.
Read MoreBay News Rising student bulletin #1
On May 27, ten eager Bay News Rising journalism students met with the Guild to negotiate the terms of a collective bargaining agreement. The 9-week long summer program gives students the opportunity to experience freelance writing and to focus on labor reporting.
Read MoreBay News Rising a success (again)
At a time when freelancers and temps comprise more than one-third of the workforce, the Guild is reaching out to the next generation of journalists to help them prepare for self-employment.
Read MoreJ-school students face wage issues in bargaining and summer reporting
Ten student journalists began the 2014 edition of the Bay News Rising summer program by organizing their own bargaining unit at Local 39521 in San Francisco.
Read MoreProtest at GAP HQ highlights garment giant’s lack of humanity
Community activists gathered from across the Bay Area to protest the status of safety conditions and labor rights, outside the annual shareholders meeting on Tuesday at the GAP headquarters in San Francisco.
Read MoreLabor icon no saint
For those of us who grew up in the 1960s and ’70s in California, Cesar Chavez was our homegrown Gandhi.
Read MoreMéndez Rising: art show sponsored by the Guild
Save July 8 for a special tribute to the art of Leopoldo Méndez. Méndez was a Mexican artist known for his political and social-justice images, part of a revolutionary arts movement that flourished in Mexico City from the 1930s through the ‘50s.
Read MoreDeadline extended for Guild scholarships
Apply for a Guild Scholarship. New deadline is June 30, 2014. Click on photo for details and app.
Read MorePurple gets an earful during ULP strike
American Sign Language interpreters struck Purple Communications Inc. on Monday in a lively show of outrage over the company’s latest unfair labor practices.
Read MoreJournalist committed to the working class
When Paul Burton was a teenager, he got an old-school education about organized labor when he worked with his father, a union brick layer. Now he’s a labor writer and editor, and his respect for workers keeps growing.
Read MoreDetroit Strike History: A Table Still Broken?
Guild freelancer Steve Early weighs in on The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the State of American Labor by Chris Rhomberg — an account of one of labor’s biggest media industry defeats in decades.
Read MoreLocal endorses state sunshine measure
The Legislative/Political Committee recommends that the Local endorse Prop. 42, a state ballot measure that would shift the cost of sunshine-law compliance from the state to local government agencies.
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