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06/30/2014

Pursuant to a voluntary compliance agreement between the United States Department of Labor (DOL) OLMS and Communications Workers Local 31003, The Newspaper Guild of New York (TNGNY), a new election will be conducted for several Guild offices. 

The Guild's Adjustable Pension Plan gives employees a benefit for each year of work that is guaranteed to be there when they retire. Each annual benefit gets stacked up ike a plate of pancakes over the course employees' careers.

06/24/2014

LOCAL BULLETIN - An innovative Guild-pioneered pension plan that could become a blueprint for helping to resolve America’s deepening retirement crisis has received the federal government’s blessing, making it a readily available union bargaining option that removes employers' main fear about traditional pensions.

05/30/2014

LOCAL BULLETIN - Standard & Poor’s Unit Chair Randye Gilliam and Hudson News Grievance Chair Montasir Islam, both of whom had central roles in their respective contract negotiations last year, were named winners of the Guild’s 2014 Keenan Award.  The award will be presented at a meeting open to all Guild members on Tuesday, June 24 at 6:30 p.m. The Guild’s semi-annual membership meeting also will feature reports from Local Chair Karen Rohan, President Bill O’Meara and Secretary-Treasurer Peter Szekely. 

05/22/2014

LOCAL BULLETIN - Acting on a recommendation from the Local Elections Committee, the New York Guild’s Executive Committee has authorized the union’s attorney to negotiate with the U.S. Department of Labor over terms for rerunning last November’s election of local officers. The decision came shortly after the Labor Department notified the Guild of two possible administrative problems that had the statistical potential to affect the outcome of the election.

05/22/2014

AL JAZEERA - On Monday, November 9th Guild members at Al Jazeera America Digital will be able to nominate officers for their Unit Council at one of two meetings scheduled that day at the Guild office at 43rd Street.

05/14/2014

BULLETIN - Full scholarship applications for union members and their families pursuing degrees at Empire State College of the State University of New York are now being accepted for the 2014-2015 academic year.

05/01/2014

LOCAL BULLETIN - The Guild is pleased to announce the opening of nominations for its annual service award, named in honor of the late Tom Keenan. Each year, the Keenan Award recognizes the outstanding contributions of a Guild member. Nominations, which can be made by any member, are open until Friday, May 16 at 6 p.m. EDT.

Guild President Bill O'Meara and Secretary-Treasurer Peter Szekely present El Diario Unit Chair Oscar Hernandez with $3830 on March 14 to match the amount El Diario colleagues raised for Liseth Perez, whose husband died in Wednesday's building explosion.

03/14/2014

LOCAL BULLETIN - A deadly explosion that leveled two apartment buildings in New York City on Wednesday had tragic consequences for a Guild member. Among the known dead in the East Harlem blast was the husband of Guild member Liseth Perez, an editor at El Diario. The Guild is taking up a collection.

03/07/2014

LOCAL BULLETIN - Federal authorities last week dismissed a claim that the Guild violated the rights of hundreds of its members when its independent Local Elections Committee asked that Consumer Reports not allow its company email system to be used for a so-called digital debate ahead of last fall’s leadership election.

02/26/2014

LOCAL BULLETIN - New York Times Unit Chair Grant Glickson announced on Tuesday that he is dropping all challenges to last fall’s Guild election in which he lost his bid to become president, saying the ongoing dispute has compromised his position as a Guild activist and that he was committed to “mending any fences that need mending.” But a separate challenge by a member who is not involved in either campaign is still pending.