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04/10/2015

LOCAL BULLETIN - Should the Guild drop “newspaper” from its name? Should we revise our bylaws to streamline our leadership and governing structures? After months of discussion and debate, first by the Guild’s Administrative  Committee and then by the Executive Committee, both bodies recommended a “yes” vote on both questions. Now it is time for all members of the New York Guild to decide these questions in a referendum.

04/07/2015

We’ve scheduled meetings around the United States so Guild members can learn about and ratify our contract proposals in advance of negotiations, which are set to begin by the end of October.

03/25/2015

This month’s election results increase the chances that the Employee Free Choice Act – and the empowerment it will bring to workers who want a union – will become the law of the land. But it still faces a tough battle. So, a strong show of support from people like you may make all the difference.

01/26/2015

LOCAL BULLETIN - The Newspaper Guild of New York's annual winter meeting that had been scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015 has been postponed due to the impending severe winter storm. Instead, it will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 3. Please make every effort to attend.

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.