Navy jet mechanics, members of IUE-CWA Local 89119, won a 5-year contract by hanging tough. CWA members across the country celebrate with them.
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Ken 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 MoreDeadline extended for Guild scholarships
Apply for a Guild Scholarship. New deadline is June 30, 2014. Click on photo for details and app.
Read MoreLunzer and Steffens promise open process for new CFI
In consultation with CWA, the former CFI board and others, TNG will work to create the framework of a new, independent local for CFI. This process includes drafting new bylaws and electing new leadership.
Read MoreA Statement to Local 39521 Members: Time for CFI to Depart
CFI and our national union leadership can move forward to create a great new local in the TNG-CWA family.
Read MoreA Statement to Local 39521 Members from TNG Leadership
The executive committee of Local 39521 is expected to take steps this week to sever its affiliation with the California Federation of Interpreters.
Read MoreA letter to members about Local 39521
We will negotiate with CFI leadership and TNG during the next two weeks with the singular goal of keeping our Local intact.
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 MoreCFI to JC: Interpreters do it better in person
About two dozen interpreters filled up the Judicial Council gallery Friday to push for extending language services to court users in civil matters and caution against the misuse of Video Remote Interpreting.
Read MoreGuild receives CWA organizing award for Purple Communications
At the CWA convention in Pittsburgh, our guild received a special organizing award for our recent addition of Purple Communications, a large multi-state unit of sign language interpreters.
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 MoreThe Balancing Act: Politics, Journalism and the Guild
Growing up with a dad who was managing editor of our city’s newspaper taught me a couple of things: The “Guild” — whatever that was exactly — meant I couldn’t play at being a kid reporter and see my stories in print, at least not in The Eugene Register-Guard. It also meant a front yard […]
Read MoreCohen condemns job-killing corporations
CWA President Larry Cohen condemned job-killing corporations and the government policies that allow them to get away with it during a fiery speech Tuesday in San Francisco’s historic Union Square. Cohen was a keynote speaker during the biennial convention of the California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO. Delegates from throughout California came to the event, including a […]
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