Radio Free Asia is a private, nonprofit corporation that broadcasts news and information to listeners in Asian countries where full, accurate, and timely news reports are unavailable. About 130 editors, reporters, technicians and others are protected by a contract that is bargained and enforced by the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild. The WBNG unit was organized at …
Raise of 3.8 percent cumulative over two years, cash bonuses of $1,750 The Guild and AFP on December 17 reached a tentative agreement on a new two-year contract which provides significant improvements following a period of a salary freeze. The contract, subject to ratification, calls for a wage hike of 2.0 percent in January 2015 …
Many may not know it, but the good salaries, excellent benefits, and job security that Bloomberg BNA employees enjoy are due in no small part to the tireless work of one person — Reza Namdar. For the better part of three decades, when a BNA employee (and yes it was just BNA for most of …
Still Waiting on Management’s First Wage Proposal In the latest bargaining session with the Washington Post, Guild negotiators were joined by staff writer Amy Goldstein, a union member who is one of the paper’s experts on the recent federal health care law. She gave a deeply researched presentation about the company’s proposal to stop offering …
First, we want to thank everyone who has responded on the Post’s proposal to have the option of ending health care insurance coverage for part-time workers. We plan to discuss this at the table Nov. 12, so there is still time if you would like to chime in. Second, we want to reiterate our call …
Post Guild’s ‘Crowd-Sourcing’ Request From the Guild’s Bargaining Committee Read More »
It was a cold, late-winter Sunday afternoon, when some 45 newsroom people gathered on March 11, 1934, in a room at the Lord Baltimore Hotel on Baltimore Street, to lay the foundation of what eventually grew into the Baltimore Newspaper Guild. Against the backdrop of the deepening Depression and with business off, Sunpapers’ management cut …
WBNG History; Sun Newsroom Vet Reflects on Guild’s Depression Roots Read More »
By a vote of 15 to 1, Guild members at the York Daily Record have ratified a two-year contract to replace the agreement that expired nearly nine years ago. WBNG Executive Director Cet Parks said that the bargaining committee and publisher were to sign the contract within a few days of the Aug. 14 ratification …
Workers at a nonprofit dedicated to helping victims of sexual abuse have acted in overwhelming numbers to help themselves by voting for union representation through the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild. By a 32-6 count, the employees of the Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network (RAINN) overcame a management campaign against the Guild. Another 17 positions are …
Silver Spring college for trade unionists holds final commencement (April 23, 2014) Four decades after a labor studies center formed on 47 sprawling acres near the Beltway, the National Labor College will conduct its final commencement ceremony April 26 at the Silver Spring campus. The institution, affiliated with the AFL-CIO, has fallen on hard financial …
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 …
