Broadcast Union News

March 3, 2016 At 9:30am and 2:30pm ratification meetings today, NewsGuild represented employees at WPIX unanimously voted to approve a three year contract that runs from January 1, 2016 throug...

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JANUARY 27, 2016: Good morning, Chairman Menchaca and members of the committee. NewsGuild of New York President Peter Szekely My name is Peter Szekely and I’m president of The NewsGu...

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#‎saveElDiario‬     CONTACT: JESUS SANCHEZ, 917-545-2017, jsanchez@nyguild.org                    CJ MACKLIN, 214-783-4055, cj.macklin@berlinrosen.com   JOU...

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, DEC. 16, 2015 Contact: CJ Macklin, 646-335-0718, cj.macklin@berlinrosen.com NEWSGUILD REACHES GROUNDBREAKING NEW CONTRACT SETTLEMENT WITH THE NATION Ne...

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On Wednesday, March 25 at 11:30AM we Commemorate the 104th Anniversary of the Triangle Factory Fire. In 1911, 146 workers, mostly young, immigrant women, lost their lives in a tragic and avoi...

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The Jersey Journal on February 16, 2015 at 12:17 PM, updated February 16, 2015 at 1:14 PM THE JERSEY JOURNAL HAS WON 16 AWARDS IN THE 2014 BETTER NEWSPAPERS CONTEST SPONSORED BY THE NEW JERSEY...

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RALPH AUGENFELD Ralph Augenfeld, a longtime and pioneering engineer at WPIX-TV, died unexpectedly on Monday. He was 64. Augenfeld began his career at WPIX  in 1979 as a maintenance engi...

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CEO TO WORKER PAY RATION NOW IS ABOUT 295 TIMES. http://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-continues-to-rise/     CEO PAY CONTINUES TO RISE AS TYPICAL WORKERS ARE PAID LESS By Lawr...

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NLRB REPRESENTATION CASE-PROCEDURES FACT SHEET FINAL RULE:  REPRESENTATION-CASE PROCEDURES The National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) Final Rule governing representation-case proce...

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Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014 BREAKING NEWS:   NLRB REVERSES PRECEDENT IN EMPLOYER E-MAIL CASE   A divided National Labor Relations Board held Thursday that workers have a right to use their em...

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Unit Chair Oscar Hernandez addressed current and laid-off employees, as well as community and labor supporters, at a rally outside the paper's offices in June, protesting the ImpreMedia's uni...

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Stop the Illegal Firings! Newspaper Guild and Allies Call on ImpreMedia to Halt Threats against Unionized Employees ILLEGALLY FIRED EL DIARIO EMPLOYEES ANNETTE SANTIAGO (L) AND ROSA M...

http://broadcastunionnews.blogspot.com/2014/08/newspaper-guild-and-allies-call-on.html

In formal comments filed this week, the Communications Workers of America, including NABET-CWA and the Newspaper Guild-CWA, called on the Federal Communications Commission to immediately dire...

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AFL-CIO NOW What the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Has to Do with the Protest Outside the Ralph Lauren Shareholders Meeting Today 08/07/2014 Brian Finnegan   Protesters ...

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THE N.Y. NEWSPAPER GUILD CALLS ON IMPREMEDIA TO MAINTAIN QUALITY JOURNALISM FOR THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY What: El Diario employees, members of the Newspaper Guild of New York, will be joined ...

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  BY MATTHEW FLAMM    THE MOVE COME LESS THAN A FORTNIGHT AFTER THE 101-YEAR-OLD PAPER HAD DEBUTED A COLORFUL NEW REDESIGN AIMED AT BOLSTERING SAGGING CIRCULATION—AND ADVERTISING. UN...

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 IMPREMEDIA CONTINUES UNION BUSTING AT EL DIARIO,  GUILD VOWS TO FIGHT BACK Following the announced layoffs on Friday by ImpreMedia of eight Guild-represented staff members at El D...

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WEINGARTEN (AFT) AND MULGREW (UFT) DEMAND FAIRNESS FOR SCHOLASTIC WRITERS AND WORKERS  New York – The Newspaper Guild of New York released today letters from Randi Weingarten, the Pres...

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NY Newspaper Guild president BILL O'MEARA and Local Representative Robert Daraio display the new banner that will be used in the continuing battle for a fair contract at Scholastic Magazines. ...

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TUNED IN by JerryBarmash THE MEDIA HAVE GRABBED HOLD OF THE GOVERNOR CHRISTIE “BRIDGEGATE” COVERAGE, WHICH TOOK OFF AFTER AN INCRIMINATING EMAIL FROM OF HIS AIDES. BUT ONE MEDIA O...

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JERSEY JOURNAL EMPLOYEES DEMAND FAIR CONTRACT & SALARY INCREASE THE WRITERS, EDITORS, REPORTERS, VIDEOGRAPHERS, AND PHOTO JOURNALISTS REPRESENTED BY THE N.Y. NEWSPAPER GUILD THAT PRODU...

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$2.7B DEAL ADDS 19 STATIONS TO FOLD By: Mike Farrell Dec 27 2013 - 12:27pm    Tribune Co. said Friday that it has closed its transaction to acquire broadcaster Local TV, creating one o...

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