May 9, 2023 The News Media Guild’s bargaining team met with The Associated Press this week to discuss the technological unit. Here’s what we talked about: * After the company refused to include the SAFE program inside the Social Media Policy proposal, the Guild submitted a proposal to include important
April 29, 2023 The News Media Guild’s bargaining team met with The Associated Press twice this week to discuss both the technological and editorial units. The Guild pressed the company on why it cannot hire badly needed technicians, as speedup is a major issue. AP said it might do better
April 12, 2023 The News Media Guild’s bargaining team met with The Associated Press on Tuesday to discuss the Editorial Unit Contract. Bargainers discussed several topics, including the company’s newly proposed “format leaders” (previously known as the player-coach roles). Previously, the company agreed that some of these “player-coach” roles would