saying it would eliminate 50-60 jobs, the New York Times saying it hadn't renewed its contract with TexasTribune.com and the Buffalo News hitting an-almost stalemate with
The Newspaper Guild for a new contract.
EVEN AS NEWSROOMS SHRANK AT unprecedented rates, jettisoning at least 13,500 journalists since 2007,
The Newspaper Guild seems to be more active than even in the heyday of newspaper unions.
"We're not treating
the Newspaper Guild any differently than any other organization similarly situated."
Three impromptu Web sites of particular note: Journalist Declan McCullagh offers wartimeliberty.com, for "factual, no-nonsense information about the tension between liberty and security during wartime."
The Newspaper Guild's "Patriotism's 2-Edged Sword" site, at newsguild.org/2edged.php, chronicles encroachment on press freedoms.
A source inside the daily newspaper said employees wanted to join
the Newspaper Guild, a unit of the Communications Workers of America, which is affiliated with the AFL-CIO.
The property, a 60-foot-wide, three-story commercial building, had been the home of
the Newspaper Guild of America since 1946.
The unions involved in the new contracts are the Teamsters Local 372, representing some 1,300-1,450 drivers, handlers, and circulation managers;
The Newspaper Guild Local 22, representing about 800-900 editorial workers; Mailers Union Local 2040, representing 360 full-time and 150 part-time mailers; Typographical Union Local 18, representing about 290 printers; and Graphic Communications Local 289, representing 37 photoengravers.
The Newspaper Guild Local 34070 says its members voted 56-45 on Tuesday in favor of the contract, which runs through August 2011 and suspends all merit pay increases.
When I started working at the North County Journals in September 2001, Mike Reigner signed me up for
the Newspaper Guild on my second day at work.
The Newspaper Guild is the big loser in the aftermath of the Times/Post-Intelligencer walkout.
Bill Ross, Administrative Officer, Dan Gross, President and the Executive Board of
the Newspaper Guild of Greater Philadelphia/CWA Local 38010.