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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.

Reuters Washington Bureau reporters and editors sport Guild T-shirts on May 3, joining many others who have revived the weekly sartorial protests over a torrent of career-threatening discipline unleashed against dozens of veteran journalists.
Reuters Washington Bureau staffers show Guild colors. Click to learn why.

Reuters Washington Bureau staffers show Guild colors. Click to learn why.

Pulitzer Prize winning reporter David Kocieniewski and his daughters at a New York Times victory celebration on April 16.

Pulitzer winner

David Kocieniewski, one of two Pulitzer Prize winners at The New York Times this year, with daughters Devin and Katia Barricklow at a Times victory celebration on April 16. The red sticker on Kocieniewski's jacket says "Guild."

Guild members at Standard & Poor's distributed leaflets in lower Manhattan on March 28 to protest plans by the McGraw-Hill Companies Inc., S&P's parent, to send thousands of U.S.-based jobs, including some at S&P, to India.
S&P Guild members protest company plans to offshore jobs on March 28.

S&P Guild members protest company plans to offshore jobs on March 28.

Before the start of contract talks on March 26, Guild negotiators, along with more than 30 observers, faced a row of empty chairs as they waited for Times management negotiators to arrive. The talks were held at Proskauer, management's law firm.
Guild negotiators and observers await Times negotiators at March 26 talks.

Guild negotiators and observers await Times negotiators at March 26 talks.

New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson, on her way to a Feb. 29 meeting about the day's top news stories, strides past Guild-represented staffers silently protesting the company's demands to cut their benefits.
Why are Times Guild members crowding the halls? CLICK PICTURE to learn.

Why are Times Guild members crowding the halls? CLICK PICTURE to learn.

    Local and Unit News

    S&P adds insult to injury to folks whose jobs may be outsourced

    May 17, 2012

    STANDARD & POOR'S - Managers call in several members of the Client Services Department, facing the likely prospect of having their jobs outsources, to complained about sick time.

    Consumer Reports disregard for its Guild employees has to stop

    May 14, 2012

    CONSUMERS UNION - CR's snub of Guild Chair Anna Pierdilucca, reported here by Anna, herself, is not seen as something personal, but a snub to Guild employees in general.

    Guild-Times bargaining panels tackle pension plan differences

    May 11, 2012

    TIMES (NEWSPAPER) - Subcommittees of the Guild and Times bargaining teams, charged with trying to resolve differences over the pension plan, explored possible solutions that would reconcile corporate management’s concerns about risk and volatility with the Guild's demand to continue a defined pension plan that provides adequate retirement payments for life.

    CWA issues staggering report about outsourcing of call centers

    May 10, 2012

    STANDARD & POOR'S - The Communications Workers of America has issues a resport that blows the lid off the outsourcing of call centers, citing incidents of security breaches. S&P should pay attention.