2023 NewsGuild Officers
OFFICIAL NEWSGUILD ELECTION NOTICE THE FOLLOWING CANDIDATES WERE ELECTED TO SERVE AS OFFICERS OF LOCAL 38010FOR 2023 PRESIDENT DIANE MASTRULL SECRETARY DONNA STOKES TREASURER ERIC CHURN 3 VICE PRESIDENTS MELANIE BURNEY 1ST VPAMY ROSENBERG 2ND VPCARL MELINE 3RD VP——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————-INQUIRER/LOCAL EXECUTIVE BOARD OFFICERS FOR 2023 UNIT CHAIRPERSON JONATHAN LAI VICE CHAIRPERSON TERESA CLINTON CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL! […]
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YOU SPOKE OUT, HERE’S THE ANSWER
Dear Guild Members: You spoke out and The Inquirer has responded. In overwhelming numbers, Inquirer staff told their shop stewards that they did not want to see their work appearing in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette while Guild members (along with other CWA locals and Teamsters) are on strike there. Executive Director Bill Ross and I communicated […]
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PLEASE DONATE TO STRIKER FUND
Dear Guild Friends: When one union has a battle, it never has to wage that fight alone. That is solidarity, the bedrock of a union. As I mentioned the other day, our local sent cheesesteaks to our striking colleagues at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. They were enthusiastically received. Our union will also now play an important […]
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A STRIKE NEEDING OUR HELP
Dear Guild Members: Today at noon our Guild colleagues at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette are planning to go out on strike, joining nonjournalist CWA members and Teamsters who have been on strike since Oct. 5 over losing their health care on Oct. 1. This was triggered when the company refused to pay the increased health-care premium […]
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ANTI-BLACK PANEL DISCUSSION AND MONDAY’S HOLIDAY
Dear Guild members: In the event you did not receive the email from the NewsGuild-CWA in Washington, there is still time to register for tonight’s panel discussion, “Was that the Reckoning? Addressing anti-Black Racism in the News Industry.” On the panel will be Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and NewsGuild of New York President Susan […]
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COVID SICK LEAVE & PROFIT-SHARING UPDATE
Dear Members: Thanks to research by a Guild member, the Company has become aware of a City of Philadelphia ordinance on COVID that potentially impacts all of you. The policy, effective March 9, 2022, to Dec. 31, 2023, requires employers with 25 or more employees to provide up to 40 hours of ADDITIONAL paid sick time to employees unable to […]
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Wilmington/Dover ratify first 2 year agreements with Gannett.
From Unit Chair Meredith Newman Hi all, Great news: We have officially ratified our contract. Many thanks to all who voted. The official vote for Wilmington was 14-3 and for the weeklies it was 3-0. I’ll send info soon about the next steps. And I promise to no longer spam your emails this much. Have […]
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PROFIT SHARING UPDATE
Dear Members: Well, as we warned last week, what was disclosed to you as the amount of profit sharing you should expect to receive was not accurate. Let’s get right to it: All full-time Guild employees who were hired as of Jan. 1, 2021, and worked at least 500 hours, will receive a profit-sharing check in the GROSS AMOUNT of $4,668.35. Part-time […]
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PROFIT SHARING ANSWERS
Dear Members: Well, you got some exciting news this afternoon. We were led to believe we would have time to get some answers from our health plan administrator before word went out so that there would not be too much confusion about this. Alas, we are where we are, so let us try to fill […]
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GUILD BULLETIN: ABORTION ACCESS ACTION
Dear Members: I wanted to share with you a statement I and the rest of the Executive Council of the NewsGuild/CWA, of which I’m a regional vice president, adopted Thursday night. As you will see, more than 40 years ago our parent organization passed a resolution saying abortion and contraception “should be a personal […]
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