Former Bay Area newspaper reporter Sara Steffens was elected secretary-treasurer Monday of the Communications Workers of America, second in command at one of the biggest labor unions in the country.
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Dori J. Maynard, diversity advocate in journalism, dies at 56
Dori J. Maynard, a journalist who was at the forefront of the campaign to make the American news media a more accurate mirror of American diversity, died on Tuesday at her home in Oakland, Calif. She was 56. The cause was lung cancer, her mother, Liz Rosen, said. At her death, Ms. Maynard was the […]
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CWA’s NCNC swears in new officers
New officers were sworn in to start the February 4 meeting of CWA’s Northern California-Nevada Council.
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Purple Communications
American Sign Language Interpreters United – ASLIU That ASLIU has “arrived” as a union with a highly committed membership was demonstrated beyond any doubt on May 5 when members took to the streets in a one-day strike to protest Purple’s imposition of changes to the health-care plan. Nearly all of Purple’s unionized employees in Denver, […]
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Fiscal challenges led to diminished San Mateo Times
Location and timing is everything for local journalism as it is for real estate. The San Mateo Times adhered to that principle for decades. And it proved quite profitable.
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Press Democrat purchase by locals is a lesson for Digital First Media
When a group of local investors bought the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, the unionized news staff invested, too.
Read MoreGuild news staffs launch effort to resuscitate journalism
The Guild has launched an effort to find or build community-based enterprises to free news organizations from the grip of the Digital First Media hedge fund.
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Wanted: Local buyers for hedge fund-owned papers
An ad posted by the San Francisco-based Guild local reads: “Employees of your community’s newspaper want a new attitude respecting quality jobs & quality journalism on the part of ownership.”
Read MoreJournalist who lost husband in East Harlem explosion needs our help
The National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) is asking for help in support of a member who lost her husband and all of her belongings in the Harlem explosion Wednesday.
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 MoreR2 Interpreters don’t let rain dampen their resolve, continue picketing for fair contract
Employee interpreters, independent contractors and union activists picketed outside the Hall of Justice on Tuesday, the second day of rallies in the Bay Area by language professionals advocating for a fair contract and meaningful language access.
Read MoreA Dispatch from the Western District Council President
The Western District Council of The Newspaper Guild (TNG) met over the weekend in Santa Fe Springs to discuss the challenges they face and the strategies they have utilized to maintain a stable work environment despite difficult times.
Read MoreFuture of newspaper guild discussed on Liberty ship
Delegates to the Bay Area maritime council met aboard the S.S. Jeremiah O’Brien, docked in San Francisco to hear a presentation by Guild Executive Officer about the changing landscape of the Bay Area’s print news.
Read MoreCWA convention delegates stand up for coordinated bargaining
Delegates to the 2013 CWA convention in Pittsburgh debated competing plans to coordinate national telecommunications bargaining Monday.
Read MoreSEIU local 87 workers picket GCA at the Chronicle
SEIU Local 87 workers held an informational picket in front of the SF Chronicle building Tuesday to reveal the unfair treatment of janitorial workers by GCA, which contracts with the newspaper.
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