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

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...

Settlement in retiree medical lawsuit – mailing and meetings to follow

The United Media Guild, TNG-CWA, Local  36047, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, LLC and Lee Enterprises, Incorporated, have reached a settlement regarding the Guild’s claim for vested lifetime retiree health care benefits. The parties believe the settlement is a fair one...

After paying big bonuses, Lee delays funding pensions

  Not that there was any question before, but there should be no question whatsoever about their values now...   Over the weekend, Guild members - active and retirees alike - received a letter from Lee Enterprises about their Pulitzer...

Let them eat cake – a protest against corporate greed

Employees of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch will gather outside their newspaper at noon on Thursday, April 12, to protest the outrageous bonuses awarded Lee Enterprises CEO Mary Junck (who received $500,000) and CFO Carl Schmidt (who received $250,000).   Noting...

Sari Gelzer (unit chair at Truthout) joins TNG-CWA Exective Council

and we're so darned proud of her (after all, we knew her when) that we're busting our buttons! Read all about it: http://www.newsguild.org/node/2120