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Labor Day Parade! (do you know where we’re lining up?)

This year, the CWA is fifth in line for the Labor Day Parade - FIFTH!!  That means Guilders - and our CWA brothers and sisters with whom we will line up at 18th & Olive - will be highly visible. ...

90%

Attention Guild retirees:  Today we hit 90%, which means that the settlement will move forward.  Thanks to everyone who helped reach out and locate some of their gone-to-ground former co-workers.  And a huge shout out to Mary Casey, who has...

UMG files for Springfield, IL newsroom

  This past week I went to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in Peoria, IL and filed a  'petition to represent' newsroom employees at the State Journal Register. Approximately 35 non-managerial employees work there and a September 4 hearing...

Reminder to laid off employees: Use your flex spending accounts! Also: Come to the Dislocated Workers Program on August 17

  This past Friday, 13 unlucky Guild members, along with five managers and five production workers, were part of yet another round of cuts at the Post-Dispatch.  As is getting to be the routine around here, the layoffs occurred mere...

In Davenport, it’s Christmas in July!

Say!  Did you hear the one about the media corporation that kept laying off newspaper employees - and trashing their newspapers in the process - in order to give bonuses, raises and stock options to their corporate executives? No?  Well...

Pekin sales rep ranks nationally

Brandy Riley, sales representative - and Guild Unit Vice-Chair - at the Pekin Daily Times recently crashed into GateHouse's "Top 25 Multi Media Sales Executives with the Highest Revenue Achievement with a Percentage Over Budget. " Brandy is currently 7th...

KSDK-TV and Jobs with Justice bargain new contracts

KSDK-TV members, whose contract was set to expire on August 24,  recently voted to extend their current collective bargaining agreement for two years with no changes. The expiring agreement ran for a single year and included no raises to the...