Our Guild’s next General Membership meeting will be held on Saturday, February 10 at 10:00 a.m. in our office in DC. Members can attend in person or by phone. Our agenda items are important, and will govern how our local spends money. We will consider policies on the use of dues money to pay for …
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The executive council of the Washington-Baltimore News Guild on Tuesday, Nov. 7, voiced unanimous support for members to volunteer on a number of issues, from communications, bargaining, finance and organizing to strategic planning and civil and human rights. ACTION: The WBNG is planning a major informational picket, featuring the CRUSH FUNK BRASS BAND, from 12:30 pm to …
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With a contentious election behind us, union activism can unite and build our union. Unity and activism are in the air at the Washington-Baltimore News Guild. We need it. Last month’s election was rough on all of us, but we’re moving forward. Our unit at the Washington Post is in a tough fight with one of …
With the ratification of a tentative agreement at The American Prospect expected to take place shortly and the signing of a first contract at the FP Group, the Washington-Baltimore News Guild will have in place 32 collective bargaining agreements with 31 employers. Only two of these WBNG units are working under expired contracts, with Guild-covered …
In a ballot count certified Oct. 13, Robert Struckman (AFL-CIO) was elected president, Elise Bryant (At-Large) was elected vice president, and Dave DeJesus (Washington Post) was elected secretary of the Washington-Baltimore News Guild. The election – a re-run of balloting in January – was held following a settlement agreement between the local union and the …
After a series of off-the-record contract talks between Washington Post management and the Guild bargaining team failed to resolve many key issues, negotiators agreed on one thing in early September: It was time to go back to the table. The two-year contract – the second under Amazon CEO Jeff Bezo, who bought the newspaper …
Contract Talks at the Post Head Into Fifth Month Read More »
After nearly a year of collective bargaining, the Washington-Baltimore News Guild and the Foreign Policy magazine have reached agreement on a two-year contract. The unit was organized in 2016, when FP editorial workers voted 16 to 1 in favor of Guild representation. Among the highlights of the new agreement are guaranteed raises for everyone, minimum …
The votes have been counted and here are the results for the 2017 WBNG Election: President Sheila Lindsay, 204 Robert Struckman, 214 Vice President Elise Bryant, 214 Amy Lampkin, 202 Secretary David DeJesus, 212 John Ringstad, 30 Mikhail Romanov, 174 See the full election results here.
Last week, among the crowd at the sunbaked informational picket line outside the Washington Post at the noon hour, Angela Fritz marched and chanted for a new contract with better retirement security for Post workers. Fritz is a meteorologist, a member of the Capital Weather Gang and the recipient of the Washington Post’s Publisher’s Award for …
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Members of a prospective bargaining unit of nearly 90 workers at a communications firm that specializes in work for nonprofit organizations voted Sept. 20 to join the Washington-Baltimore News Guild. A majority of the eligible employees of M+R Strategic Services had signed union-representation cards by early last summer. But when they asked the firm to voluntarily …
