Fight For 15 wins first contract!
December 15, 2018
Fast Food Organizers, represented by United Media Guild and employed by the National Fast Food Workers Union (an SEIU affiliate) ratified their first contract today. The three year agreement includes a signing bonus, raises and a very generous benefits package,...
In warning about crossing lines, Robberson does just that.
October 27, 2017
Our union has no problem with a newspaper columnist expressing an opinion, for that is the purpose of an editorial section. But Tod Robberson's decision to run a recent column criticizing colleagues for their use of social media brings...
lifted from the Illinois Times. . .
January 30, 2016
Friday, Jan. 29, 2016 09:28 pm Shove it SJ-R newsroom rejects contract By Bruce Rushton Newsroom employees at the State Journal-Register tonight rejected a final contract offer from GateHouse Media, the company that owns Springfield’s daily newspaper. The vote was...
IFJ List of Journalists and Media Staff Killed in 2013
December 31, 2013
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today issued a list of 123 people killed in 2013 (link below). The IFJ classified 15 of those deaths as accidental and 108 were classified as targeted killings. In releasing the list, the...
Rumor Control (STL Post Dispatch Unit)
November 15, 2013
There's a rumor circulating that Lee plans to cut pension benefits. Retirees are calling the Guild to ask about it. Here's the truth: Lee can't cut our pension benefits. That would be illegal. Even if Lee goes broke, we won't...
Post-Dispatch business writer Jim Gallagher weighs in on the announced changes to Lee’s 401-K
August 30, 2013
Fellow Guild members and Lee employees: The Guild has been getting a lot of questions from members about changes to our Lee 401(k) plan. I write our Sunday personal finance column at the Post-Dispatch, so I thought I might share...
February 12, 2013
UNITED MEDIA GUILD LOCAL 36047 MEETING NOTICE FOR NOMINATION OF DELEGATES TO THE TNG SECTOR CONFERENCE AND CWA CONVENTION We will accept nominations for up to (4) delegates for TNG Sector Conference and (2) of these four will be...
Nominations for 21st Annual Terry Hughes Award
December 6, 2012
Terry Hughes was 36 when she died of breast cancer on July 22, 1991. A columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, her writing was clear, witty and descriptive, with a flair for portraying society’s underdogs. Some of her columns chronicled...