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April Chronicle Shop Notes

Pacific Media Workers Guild April 19, 2016March 8, 2020 0 comment

Send gossip, titillating trivia and scandal to: srubenstein@sfchronicle.com Who says an ergonomics workshop is ho-hum? Not us. In fact, it’s practically X-rated. Consider these words of advice from the Chronicle’s amazing ergonomist, Anna Brock: “Some employees really want to be on top (of the desk)” and “You really have to wedge your butt into the […]

Chronicle Shopnotes , Opinion

Chronicle Shopnotes 2.0

Pacific Media Workers Guild March 15, 2016March 8, 2020 0 comment

We hear that part of the deal that wooed the inimitable Jaxon Van Derbeken off to TV-land was an honest-to-God personal wardrobe budget, a New York fashion makeover and free tuition to TV charm school in Texas (good luck with all that, TV people).

Opinion

Trans-Pacific Partnership could sabotage the First Amendment

Pacific Media Workers Guild March 14, 2016March 8, 2020 0 comment

Concerns about a provision that could sabotage the First Amendment rights of our members, especially journalists, have prompted the Pacific Media Workers Guild to oppose U.S. participation in a proposed 12-nation trade agreement called the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Chronicle Shopnotes , Opinion

Chronicle Shopnotes, 21st century version

Pacific Media Workers Guild February 23, 2016March 8, 2020 1 comment

Shopnotes are back! If about the Chronicle, bring scoops and all the gossip that’s fit to print to Curiouser and Curiouser in the newsroom.

National news , Opinion

Friedrichs v. CTA and the case for fair share

Pacific Media Workers Guild February 10, 2016February 10, 2016 1 comment

Friedrichs v. CTA is about wealthy special interests that want to shift the balance of economic power in their favor, and make it even more difficult for working people to come together, speak up collectively, get ahead and help create an economy that works for everyone, and serve their communities in the best way possible.

Opinion

CWA offers candidate info for 2016 race

Pacific Media Workers Guild September 22, 2015November 7, 2016 0 comment

Which candidates do you think have the best plans for moving our country forward on the issues most important to you and your family?

Opinion

Tell your senators to reject TPP fast-track bill

Pacific Media Workers Guild June 23, 2015July 29, 2015 0 comment

Guild’s vice-president-California, Richard Knee, weighs in about the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Opinion

The Media Guild Pension Plan survives in hostile times

Michael Applegate February 27, 2015March 8, 2020 1 comment

For more than five decades, the Media Guild Pension Plan has paid lifetime pensions to retired participants, chiefly the Guild-covered staff at the San Francisco Chronicle and its ancestors in the once-thriving Bay Area newspaper industry.

Opinion

Should the Guild be politically active?

Michael Applegate January 20, 2015March 8, 2020 0 comment

Your votes on Feb. 21 will matter Dear Guild Brothers and Sisters, You will be asked, at the joint meeting of the Executive Committee, Representative Assembly and General Membership on Feb. 21, to vote on whether our Local should be permitted to take public positions on political issues. And if you vote […]

Local news , Opinion

Broken Table author says bargaining is wrecked

Pacific Media Workers Guild August 20, 2014March 8, 2020 0 comment

The Detroit newspaper strike was not only one of the longest and largest strikes in history, it also marked the destruction of the negotiation table, argues Fordham University professor Chris Rhomberg.

Opinion

Why the Guild matters today

Michael Applegate July 21, 2014November 24, 2014 0 comment

Good jobs, good benefits and a just society depend on workers acting together.

Local news , Opinion

Niesha Gates — Our Wonderful President Moves On

Michael Applegate November 8, 2013 1 comment

Niesha Gates, president of the Pacific Media Workers Guild, has landed a dream job for any former college student. She gets paid to start talking about the teachers.

Local news , Opinion

Memories of Brother Russ Cain

Michael Applegate June 24, 2013December 9, 2014 2 comment

My enduring memory of Russ doesn’t directly relate to the decades of Guild service he rendered as an organizer, local president, or international vice president.

Opinion

Assembly OKs Guild-backed bill to boost transparency in politics

Michael Applegate May 1, 2013 0 comment

Guild-supported legislation that would require petitions for state and local initiatives, referenda and recalls to include a list of their top funders is before the state Senate after getting the Assembly’s nod.

Local news , Opinion

May 1 is International Workers’ Day

Michael Applegate May 1, 2013November 22, 2014 0 comment

We organize and fight for just treatment of all working people, for better opportunities, for better standards.