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News Releases
- 18 Aug 2005
MIAMI, Aug. 18 – U.S. workers at the Spanish news agency EFE joined the News Media Guild this week, saying they’re standing together to achieve a fair contract that will enhance quality journalism in the rapidly growing Spanish media sector.
EFE, based in Madrid, is the world’s leading Spanish-language news agency, providing text, photos, and multimedia content to clients around the world. The North American operation is based in Miami, with journalists in New York, Washington, and other cities.
- 30 Jun 2005
In another major victory for the News Media Guild, The Associated Press has agreed to rescind byline quotas in Ohio to settle a charge, filed by the union, that the company violated federal labor law by establishing the quotas mid-contract.
The Guild's Executive Committee voted June 28th to accept the settlement, in which AP agrees to rescind numeric byline and enterprise standards as well as written warnings to two staffers.
- 21 Apr 2005
TOKYO, April 21 – A Japanese court ordered Associated Press to pay a fired AP union leader $4,500 a month for violating that nation’s labor law, according to the Japan Federation of Newspaper Workers Unions (Shimbun Roren).
Tsukada Newser
BACK PAY: Union attorney Kanae Doi, left, and fired AP union leader Atsushi Tsukada, right, at news conference in Tokyo, April 22, 2004. Shimbun Roren photo
- 14 Feb 2005
NEW YORK – Leaders of the News Media Guild and Technicians Local 1314 voted this week to endorse a merger, a move that would create a unified labor group representing all unionized employees at The Associated Press for the first time in 60 years.
Members of both locals, voting separately, must approve the merger document before it becomes effective. Ballots will be mailed March 11th to all NMG members in good standing.
- 25 Apr 2004
(NEW YORK, April 25th) -- Two unions representing nearly 2,000 Associated Press employees have announced plans to rally outside the annual meeting of the news cooperative, set for April 28th in Seattle, Wash.
In addition to the rally, workers across the nation will conduct other job actions, ranging from byline boycotts to withholding personal cars and mobile phones to show their frustration with the AP's failure to negotiate a fair contract.
