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We are the New York area workplace advocate for people in the news business, and that includes some of the best journalists in the country.

The Newspaper Guild of New York represents more than 3,000 employees at New York area-based news organizations, as well as a few non-news organizations.

Since its launch in 1934 by crusading columnist Heywood Broun and others, the Guild has been the voice in the workplace for practitioners of big-city journalism and employees in advertising, circulation and other related areas. It started with newspapers, but today the Guild’s reach extends to workers in all media.

 

Janet Robinson's golden parachute prompted an open letter to Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. on Jan. 4 from 566 current and former employees. CLICK HERE FOR LETTER AND NAMES

Times Guild members pack meeting for update on contract talks on Jan. 9

Times Guild members pack meeting for update on contract talks on Jan. 9

Newspaper Guild of New York demonstration at Consumer Reports 75th anniversary party at Grand Central Terminal

 

Hogging it!

Guild members at Consumer Reports, angry at being asked to accept a concessionary contract while top execs rake in $4.9 million a year, spread their message on Oct. 28 at New York's Grand Central Station where the company was holding a 75th anniversary party. Click for more pictures.

    Local and Unit News

    Guild, Times to discuss pensions, health care in subcommittee

    January 27, 2012

    TIMES (NEWSPAPER) - Full committee negotiations resumed on Friday with the Guild and Times management agreeing to bring the pension and health care issues into subcommittee discussions as they have done for several less high-profile issues, like temps, vacation and work schedules and performance reviews. Both sides' principal negotiators will be on the pension and health care panel.

    Guild, Times negotiators agree on process for secondary issues

    January 19, 2012

    TIMES (NEWSPAPER) - Contract talks progressed on Thursday between the Guild negotiating committee and New York Times management, with agreement reached on a new range of topics to be discussed in a subcommittee format that has yielded progress on another issue. The first of the new subcommittees immediately went into session after the larger committees adjourned.

    With members watching, Times contact talks take more civil tone

    January 13, 2012

    TIMES (NEWSPAPER) - With Guild observers packing the room, the first full contract talks in more than seven months had a more civil, less harsh tone from previous negotiating sessions. While management negotiators told the Guild not to expect a withdrawal of any of their proposals, they indicated a willingness, albeit with skepticism, to consider alternatives to their demand to freeze the pension plan.

    New Year rings in raises and annual payments at Time Inc.

    January 12, 2012

    TIME INC. - Minimum salaries rose on Jan. 1 and Guild-covered employees at Time Inc. will receive their 2 percent general increase in February 2 paychecks. What's more, everyone who had been with the company for at least five years as of July 12, 2010, and was in covered by the Guild on that date will receive the second of three annual payments, ranging from $366.67 to $2,500.

    Industry News

    East Bay papers to consolidate, cut 8% of staff

    January 28, 2012

    As newspapers nationwide struggle to evolve viable business models, Bay Area News Group said Tuesday it will consolidate 11 local newspapers in the East Bay into two regional newspapers and lay off 8 percent of the staff.

    What readers want to read next

    January 28, 2012

    We’d all like to know what comes next. That can be a spiritual quest, a political one, or in the case of news publishers, one that would help them know what it is readers who land on their site would like to read next.

    McClatchy second-quarter profits, revenue fall

    January 28, 2012

    The McClatchy Co. today reported lower profits and revenue in the second quarter, as The Bee’s owner continues to struggle with a weak economy and structural changes in the newspaper industry.

    The Newsonomics of Netflix

    January 28, 2012

    Netflix CEO Reed Hastings says he is surprised that customers weren’t more upset with Netflix’s digital shift. After all, he expected more upset, in his role as a pioneer, early in the game of forcing the digital shift.