The News Media Guild is your employee organization. It bargains the contract and makes sure all of its terms are carried out. The Guild's staff of labor professionals, backed by the resources of The Newspaper Guild and the Communications Workers of America, help promote quality journalism by securing professional wages, benefits, and job protections. Membership is the best way to protect and advance employee goals. Don't sit on the sidelines -- join today.
Guild News
- 09 Mar 2010
News Media Guild members are eligible for the Joe Beirne Scholarship program offered by our parent union, the Communications Workers of America. Beirne was the founding president of the CWA. (Note: this CWA scholarship is separate from NMG’s Patrick Sherlock scholarship, which will be offered again later this year. NMG members are eligible for both.)
Fifteen partial college scholarships of $3,000 each are being offered for the 2010-2011 school year. Part-time students, (less than 12 credits) would receive half of the scholarship money.
- 19 Feb 2010
Evaluations should be a constructive tool. In many -- if not most-- work locations throughout The Associated Press the good faith of managers has confirmed what many employees already knew: they are doing a good job. Meanwhile, the evaluation comments, intended to bolster performance, are clear and attainable in their goals.
Evaluations have been a useful tool when deciding promotions, transfers and merit pay.
- 10 Feb 2010
(NEW YORK, Feb. 10, 2010) – The News Media Guild reached agreement Wednesday on wage reductions at United Press International aimed at preventing a shutdown of U.S. text operations. The agreement calls for a 14 percent wage reduction with protections for lower-compensated employees, and four Guild-covered workers will be laid off.
Most managers will be departing and others will face wage reductions.
