The United Media Guild

Lee Enterprises loses revenue, cut staff, rewards top executives

As you would expect, Lee Enterprises executive chairman Mary Junck offered optimistic spin on the state of the company Wednesday at its annual shareholders meeting. "We have proven ourselves to be flexible and nimble at rethinking, repositioning and redeveloping all...

Lee Enterprises newspaper in Wyoming votes to unionize

The United Media Guild salutes employees of the Casper Star-Tribune for seeking representation from the NewsGuild. The Star-Tribune has absorbed staff cut after staff cut ordered by its parent company, Lee Enterprises. Journalists realized they needed to gain a strong...

UMG negotiates raises, increased benefits at Jobs with Justice

The United Media Guild achieved many economic gains with its tentative three-year agreement with Missouri Jobs with Justice. "The staff of Jobs with Justice works very hard to advance the rights of workers," unit chair Richard von Glahn said. "Having...

UMG honors Bill McClellan, top activists

[caption id="attachment_2423" align="alignright" width="300"] Bill McClellan and previous Hughes winner Joel Currier.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_2424" align="alignright" width="300"] Guilder of the Year Joe Holleman addresses his fellow UMG members.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_2425" align="alignright" width="300"] Stanley Jackson accepted the Solidarity Award on behalf of...

UMG works to distinguish real news from marketing content

Protecting the craft of journalism is one of the United Media Guild's most important tasks. We have fought hard to prevent journalists from being assigned to write advertorial copy, particularly for the GateHouse Newspapers chain. A journalist's job is to...

GateHouse offers to end eternal pay freeze

Bargaining between the NewsGuild-CWA and GateHouse Media has resulted in a global agreement for all Guild represented newspapers currently owned by GateHouse. Those newspapers include United Media Guild units at the Peoria Journal Star, State Journal-Register, Pekin Daily Times, Rockford...

Nominations sought for Terry Hughes Award

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...