A journalist’s seat on San Francisco’s Sunshine Ordinance Task Force is vacant. The task force is an 11-member policy body that monitors how well or poorly city personnel, boards, commissions, departments etc. comply with local and state open-meeting and public-records laws.
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 […]
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.
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.
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.
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.
Long-time Guild members receive awards from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, The Newspaper Guild and the Society for Professional Journalists. We congratulate our talented members.
The Guild joined a chorus of groups in a successful effort to keep the mandatory aspect of California Public Records Act compliance intact.
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.
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 […]
