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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.

Ed Miller of Consumers Union

 

Longest-serving member
of New York Guild dies

 

 

Ed Miller, the Guild's longest-serving member before retiring from Consumers Union last year after 62 years, died on May 7 at 90.

Guild members at Consumer Reports magazine march through the corridors of the company's Yonkers, NY, offices on April 25 to protest management's new restrictive sick leave policy.
Ink was barely dry on a contract with Consumers Union when management made sick leave policy more restrictive, prompting an April 25 protest. (Click to see more)

Ink was barely dry on a contract with Consumers Union when management made sick leave policy more restrictive, prompting an April 25 protest. (Click to see more)

Guild President Bill O'Meara and other Guild activists at Consumer Reports magazine notify Linda Tepedino, Consumers Union vice president of human resources, on April 5 that members have ratified a new contract.
Guild notifies Consumer Reports on April 5 that members ratified contract.

Guild notifies Consumer Reports on April 5 that members ratified contract.

Peter Szekely (l) and Bill O'Meara (r) at a rally for organizing Cablevision workers. To learn more, visit http://www.thecablevision99.org/
Peter Szekely and Bill O'Meara at a rally for reinstating illegally fired Cablevision workers. To learn more, visit www.thecablevision99.org

Peter Szekely and Bill O'Meara at a rally for reinstating illegally fired Cablevision workers. Learn more>>

Colleagues at the Reuters Times Square newsroom celebrate the return on Feb. 4 of Carole Vaporean, one of eight Guild-represented journalists unjustly dismissed last year. The other seven elected not to return after the Guild won a key arbitration.
Reuters journalists celebrate Feb. 4 return of PIP victim Carole Vaporean.

Reuters journalists celebrate Feb. 4 return of PIP victim Carole Vaporean.

    Local and Unit News

    From KIC management, empty offers, some not even legal

    May 17, 2013

    KAPLAN - Guild negotiators were cautiously optimistic last week when Kaplan International Centers (KIC) management representatives promised to respond to our considerable compromises with reasonable counteroffers. But after management negotiators took a brief caucus all they came back with was more of the same. In fact, some of what they offered didn’t even meet the soon-to-be minimum requirements of the law.

    Guild and S&P negotiators state their No. 1 bargaining issues

    May 13, 2013

    STANDARD & POOR'S - In an effort to bring contract negotiations to a satisfactory conclusion, Guild and S&P management negotiators effectively put their cards on the table at a recent meeting by revealing to one another their top bargaining goals. For the Guild, the first priority is to preserve and enhance employment security.

    Guild's Keenan Service Award nominations open until May 31

    May 10, 2013

    BULLETIN - The Guild is pleased to announce the opening of nominations for its annual service award, named in honor of the late Tom Keenan. Each year, the Keenan Award recognizes the outstanding contributions of a Guild member. Nominations, which can be made by any member, are open until Friday, May 31 at 6 p.m. EDT.

    Empire State scholarship offered; S&P activist joins EC

    May 2, 2013

    BULLETIN - Full scholarship applications for union members and their families pursuing degrees at Empire State College of the State University of New York are now being accepted for the 2013-2014 academic year. Also, Mabel Rodriguez of the Standard & Poor’s unit has been elected to fill a vacancy on the New York Guild’s 24-member Executive Committee.

    Industry News

    San Francisco Chronicle changes style on ‘illegal immigrant’

    May 21, 2013

    The San Francisco Chronicle changed its style on “illegal immigrant” Monday. It’s the latest of several publications to reconsider the term.

    The newspaper’s new style will “essentially match” the Associated Press’ style on the term, David Steinberg, copy desk … Read more

    AP photographer: ‘For a moment, there was hope in the devastation’

    May 21, 2013

    AP photographer Sue Ogrocki talks about photographing children at Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., Monday.

    In the 30 minutes that I was outside the destroyed school, I photographed about a dozen children pulled from the rubble.

    I focused … Read more

    ‘The monster returned’: Front pages from Oklahoma

    May 21, 2013

    At least 24 people were killed Monday when a massive tornado struck Moore, Okla., and south Oklahoma City. Berry Tramel’s front page story in The Oklahoman compared the tragedy to a tornado that struck Moore on May 3, 1999: … Read more

    The day in government snooping

    May 20, 2013

    Journalists were already rattled by the Department of Justice’s secret seizure of Associated Press phone records when Ann Marimow’s disturbing scoop in The Washington Post about the U.S. Department of Justice investigating Fox News reporter James Rosen hit this weekend. … Read more