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Student journalists revive labor reporting
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Student journalists revive labor reporting

Pacific Media Workers Guild July 31, 2015March 8, 2020 0 comment

Student journalists in the Pacific Media Workers Guild’s Bay News Rising summer program in social justice reporting have unleashed some amazing work.

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Service award winner embodies best of labor, Guild ideals
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Service award winner embodies best of labor, Guild ideals

Michael Applegate July 24, 2015March 8, 2020 0 comment

Rebecca Rosen Lum of the Pacific Media Workers Guild is the latest winner of the Guild’s prestigious Charles B. Dale Service Award. Although she wasn’t able to pick up the award in person at the CWA Convention, local leaders delivered it to her. “I couldn’t have been more stunned – or more thrilled – to win […]

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Derek Moore new head of the Guild
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Derek Moore new head of the Guild

Michael Applegate March 30, 2015March 8, 2020 0 comment

Derek Moore, a reporter at The Press Democrat and chair of the Guild unit in Santa Rosa, has been appointed interim President of the Pacific Media Workers Guild following the resignation of Rebecca Rosen Lum.

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Strikers remember rain, pain and some gain
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Strikers remember rain, pain and some gain

Pacific Media Workers Guild November 15, 2014March 8, 2020 0 comment

A strike had been percolating for weeks before 2,600 workers from 11 unions at the Examiner, the Chronicle and the San Francisco Newspaper Agency walked off the job Nov. 1, 1994. Four days of round-the-clock negotiations hit a logjam over salary and job security, but by then, a solid structure had been formed for a strike.

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Bay News Rising student bulletin #1

Michael Applegate June 5, 2014November 22, 2014 0 comment

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.

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J-school students face wage issues in bargaining and summer reporting

Michael Applegate May 29, 2014November 22, 2014 0 comment

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.

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James Madison award winners for sunshine and first amendment work announced by SPJ NorCal chapter

Michael Applegate February 10, 2014 0 comment

Freelance journalist Richard Knee will receive a Distinguished Service Award for 12 years of service on San Francisco’s Sunshine Ordinance Task Force.

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Election Committee certifies results

Michael Applegate January 9, 2014November 22, 2014 1 comment

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.

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Rebuilding effort starts with new year

Michael Applegate December 21, 2013November 22, 2014 1 comment

The Unity Slate wins Guild election. Winners were declared at 7:32 am this morning at the Guild office by Local Election Committee members.

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Guild members rack up the awards

Michael Applegate November 4, 2013November 24, 2014 1 comment

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.

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Finally! Health care for freelancers

Michael Applegate March 11, 2013November 22, 2014 0 comment

After many false starts and frustrations, we have reached an agreement with a broker who will help members of the Guild Freelancers unit secure discounted health insurance.

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Guild freelancers induct Doonesbury’s Rick Redfern

Michael Applegate December 5, 2012November 22, 2014 0 comment

The guild freelancers created a special slot for former Washington Post investigative reporter, Rick Redfern, a Doonesbury character who lost his job in a reduction in force in 2008 and who has been freelancing ever since.

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Locked out Castlewood workers will return to work in October

Pacific Media Workers Guild October 1, 2012November 22, 2014 0 comment

After two years of stalling and dirty tricks by management, Castlewood Country Club has been advised to end its lockout – and quickly. An administrative law judge with the National Labor Relations Board ruled on Aug. 17 that the lockout was illegal. The judge told the company to reinstate the workers by Oct. 16 and pay […]

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Guild offers unique summer program to the Next Generation of media workers

Michael Applegate July 14, 2012 0 comment

by Niesha Lofing July 12, 2012 A college student journalism project spearheaded by the Pacific Media Workers Guild is being heralded by media professionals and industry leaders as a critical program to help the next generation of workers gain experience and introduce them to the value of unionism. Bay News Rising, a summer program of […]

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Bay News Rising – Summer School Launch

Michael Applegate June 15, 2012 0 comment

by Kat Anderson Pacific Media Workers Guild, in partnership with Fog City Journal, just finished its first week of “summer school” for college journalists at its offices in San Francisco. The summer program, called “Bay News Rising,” is thought to be the first of its kind in the country. The program is operating with the […]

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