Local 32035 bargainers recently achieved a new contract for a half-dozen Guild members at United Way Worldwide’s Department of Labor Participation. The agreement runs through April 30, 2018. Highlights of the contract include raises of 3.5 percent each year and a signing bonus of $1,000. The employer is increasing its share of the cost of …
An organizing campaign that concluded with management voluntarily recognizing the Washington-Baltimore NewsGuild has resulted in the creation of a 36-worker bargaining unit at the Center for Popular Democracy. The campaign at the progressive nonprofit headquartered in New York began in May. “We quickly collected signed cards from more than two-thirds of the three dozen or …
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The General Membership of the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild has passed a resolution calling on the D.C. Central Labor Council (Metro Washington Council, AFL-CIO) to “organize a day of unity for our local labor family, with the special purpose of including local law enforcement and building solidarity among all parts of the community.” The resolution crafted …
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In action that will lead to a collective bargaining agreement for about 20 employees at the FP Group, editorial workers at Foreign Policy have voted 16 to 1 in favor of representation by the Washington Baltimore NewsGuild. “FP will recognize the union and negotiate a labor agreement through the process of good faith collective bargaining,” …
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The nine-member WBNG unit at American Postal Workers Union headquarters ratified a two-year collective bargaining agreement June 9 that gives salary increases of 1.2 percent each year. The new contract is an extension of the 2012-2015 agreement that expired May 1 and that itself had been extended one year ago. “The two-year extension keeps everything …
The 160-member Guild unit at AFL-CIO headquarters is working under a new 30-month collective bargaining agreement that immediately paid one week of salary as a signing bonus. The contract for the labor federation’s professional employees, which runs to March 31, 2018, expired Sept. 30, but had 120 days of retroactivity; a tentative agreement was reached …
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The 135 Guild members at the Baltimore Sun are breathing a little easier than many of their daily newspaper brethren: They have a three-year union contract that protects and preserves many of the benefits gained over the years. The Sun, like virtually all other U.S. dailies has been hit hard in recent years by changing …
Mergers with locals based in North Carolina and New York have expanded WBNG’s membership and geographical reach. To the south of Washington and Baltimore, the two shops that comprise the former IUE-CWA Local 83188 are the North Carolina AFL-CIO and the Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) organization, both of which are based in the Research …
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RATIFICATION BONUS TO BE PAID IN JANUARY UNLIMITED MERIT, SPOT BONUSES 401(K) IMPROVEMENTS DOUBLING OF PARENTING LEAVE In late December, Guild members overwhelmingly approved the tentative agreement the Guild bargaining team reached with management, triggering the payment of a $425 signing bonus to each employee and an improved 401(k) match for employees not covered by …
The Guild and BBNA management reached tentative agreement in the early morning hours Wednesday on a new contract that will increase wages, freeze health care costs for two years, increase new-parent leave and protect retiree health care. Guild members will still need to ratify the agreement for it to go into effect. The agreement would …
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