Peter Szekely, the Local’s new Secretary-Treasurer has worked as a journalist at Reuters since 1978.  Since 1983 he has worked in the Reuters Washington Bureau where he covers energy, economics, labor and political and general news.

    Peter has been the Guild’s Unit Chairperson at Reuters since first being elected in 1990.  He has handled numerous grievances, attended or testified at dozens of arbitrations as well as heading the units bargaining committees through several different negotiations.  He has also been the New York Guild’s Local Chairperson as well as a Regional Vice-President to the Newspaper Guild’s sector of the CWA since the middle 1990’s.  Peter is married to fellow Guild member, Chizu Nomiyama, who is a copy editor in the Reuters Washington bureau.