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01/21/2015

LOCAL BULLETIN - The Guild will hold its annual winter membership meeting on Jan. 27 (UPDATE: Postponed to Feb. 3 due to blizzard) amid a swirl of contract campaigns and a decision by our parent union to change its name. In addition, Guild members are eligible for two separate scholarship programs, and the maximum weekly salary on which dues are assessed will increase on March 1. For the large majority of members, however, there will be no increase in dues.

11/26/2014

LOCAL BULLETIN - Eight delegates and eight alternates to the upcoming 2015 Sector Conference of The Newspaper Guild-CWA have been officially elected. No other nominations were made from the floor and no additional nominations were filed by the Nov. 19 deadline.

11/13/2014

LOCAL BULLETIN - Eight delegates and eight alternates to the 2015 Sector Conference of The Newspaper Guild-CWA were nominated by New York’s Representative Assembly on Tuesday night. The Sector Conference will be held in Orlando, Florida from Jan. 14 to 18.

Guild members in 2011 waiting to join New York City Labor Day parade up Fifth Avenue.

09/04/2014

LOCAL BULLETIN - Join your Guild colleagues and the rest of the city's labor movement for the New York City Labor Day Parade as we march up Fifth Avenue on Saturday, Sept. 6. All Guild members are invited to spend a few hours to demonstrate their solidarity and remind onlookers and marchers alike that a strong middle class depends on a strong union movement.

08/13/2014

With the economy shrinking and the news business in turmoil, the Newspaper Guild of New York on Tuesday created an organizing fund aimed at increasing its presence in the media-dense city and securing its future as an advocate for news employees and their craft.

07/14/2014

LOCAL BULLETIN - A single slate of candidates that includes the Guild's two current paid officers and its other incumbent rank-and-file leaders was deemed to be elected on Thursday when no opposing nominations were made in a government-supervised rerun of last November's triennial election that the Guild agreed to hold.

06/30/2014

Pursuant to a voluntary compliance agreement between the United States Department of Labor (DOL) OLMS and Communications Workers Local 31003, The Newspaper Guild of New York (TNGNY), a new election will be conducted for several Guild offices. 

The Guild's Adjustable Pension Plan gives employees a benefit for each year of work that is guaranteed to be there when they retire. Each annual benefit gets stacked up ike a plate of pancakes over the course employees' careers.

06/24/2014

LOCAL BULLETIN - An innovative Guild-pioneered pension plan that could become a blueprint for helping to resolve America’s deepening retirement crisis has received the federal government’s blessing, making it a readily available union bargaining option that removes employers' main fear about traditional pensions.

05/30/2014

LOCAL BULLETIN - Standard & Poor’s Unit Chair Randye Gilliam and Hudson News Grievance Chair Montasir Islam, both of whom had central roles in their respective contract negotiations last year, were named winners of the Guild’s 2014 Keenan Award.  The award will be presented at a meeting open to all Guild members on Tuesday, June 24 at 6:30 p.m. The Guild’s semi-annual membership meeting also will feature reports from Local Chair Karen Rohan, President Bill O’Meara and Secretary-Treasurer Peter Szekely. 

05/22/2014

LOCAL BULLETIN - Acting on a recommendation from the Local Elections Committee, the New York Guild’s Executive Committee has authorized the union’s attorney to negotiate with the U.S. Department of Labor over terms for rerunning last November’s election of local officers. The decision came shortly after the Labor Department notified the Guild of two possible administrative problems that had the statistical potential to affect the outcome of the election.