In a letter from the publisher and its top editors, The American Prospect management announced that it is voluntarily recognizing the Washington-Baltimore News Guild as the exclusive bargaining agent for magazine staff. According to WBNG Local Representative Paul Reilly, the Guild unit will have eight members. The staffers had advised management of their filing for …
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Today, May 3, on World Press Freedom Day, WBNG stands in solidarity with all of our journalist sisters and brothers at Digital First Media and GateHouse Media, fighting profiteering owners. Join the movement to protect journalism and demand the right to report now. See the press release issues by Bernie Lunzer, President of the NewsGuild-CWA, below. …
Today, staff at The American Prospect, filed for a union representation vote with the Washington-Baltimore News Guild. The Prospect has been a strong, independent and progressive source of journalism for more than 25 years. Making a move to form a union with the Guild will allow all staff at the Prospect to carry out its mission: to advance …
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With the staff of the Georgia AFL-CIO having recently signed a three-year agreement, the Washington-Baltimore News Guild now has 30 shops on its roster. The Peach State’s labor federation contract will expire March 30, 2020. In other local action: The 35-member unit at the Center for Popular Democracy, which ratified its first Guild contract the …
The top agenda item at the next meeting of the Washington-Baltimore News Guild membership will be nominations and an election of delegates to The NewsGuild Sector conference and the Communications Workers of America convention in Pittsburgh in August. The Saturday, April 1 Local 32035 meeting, open to all WBNG members, will begin at 10 a.m. …
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Nearly a quarter of the 46 members of the Guild-represented Northeast Region Organizing Project were missing from a four-day employer-sponsored workshop in late January. What wasn’t missing was a provision in the Washington-Baltimore News Guild contract stipulating that the American Federation of Teachers has to provide annual training to every member of the NEROP shop. …
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The Washington-Baltimore News Guild has added a 30th shop to the local’s slate of bargaining units. Employees of the Advancement Project on Jan. 10 voted 11-2 in favor of WBNG representation. The civil rights organization that works “on-the-ground… to develop and inspire community-based solutions” has its national headquarters in Washington and an office in Los …
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The widely scattered Guild unit at the Solidarity Center has ratified a collective bargaining agreement to succeed the contract that expired Sept. 25. The new contract features a 1 percent signing bonus, and annual wage increases of 1.5 percent the first year, 1.75 percent in the second year, and 2 percent in the third year. …
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Washington-Baltimore News Guild Green Zone (Proposals of Jan. 29, 2005 ) The Washington-Baltimore New Guild, a broad based union of journalists, advertising sales staff, professional staff, administrative and customer service support staff, and technical professionals recognizes the necessity for the Guild to take positions on issues which affect the economic and social well-being of our …
