ANTI-BLACK PANEL DISCUSSION AND MONDAY’S HOLIDAY
Dear Guild members: In the event you did not receive the email from the NewsGuild-CWA in Washington, there is still time to register for tonight’s panel discussion, “Was that the Reckoning? Addressing anti-Black Racism in the News Industry.” On the panel will be Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and NewsGuild of New York President Susan […]
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COVID SICK LEAVE & PROFIT-SHARING UPDATE
Dear Members: Thanks to research by a Guild member, the Company has become aware of a City of Philadelphia ordinance on COVID that potentially impacts all of you. The policy, effective March 9, 2022, to Dec. 31, 2023, requires employers with 25 or more employees to provide up to 40 hours of ADDITIONAL paid sick time to employees unable to […]
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PROFIT SHARING UPDATE
Dear Members: Well, as we warned last week, what was disclosed to you as the amount of profit sharing you should expect to receive was not accurate. Let’s get right to it: All full-time Guild employees who were hired as of Jan. 1, 2021, and worked at least 500 hours, will receive a profit-sharing check in the GROSS AMOUNT of $4,668.35. Part-time […]
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PROFIT SHARING ANSWERS
Dear Members: Well, you got some exciting news this afternoon. We were led to believe we would have time to get some answers from our health plan administrator before word went out so that there would not be too much confusion about this. Alas, we are where we are, so let us try to fill […]
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GUILD BULLETIN: ABORTION ACCESS ACTION
Dear Members: I wanted to share with you a statement I and the rest of the Executive Council of the NewsGuild/CWA, of which I’m a regional vice president, adopted Thursday night. As you will see, more than 40 years ago our parent organization passed a resolution saying abortion and contraception “should be a personal […]
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YOUR CONCERNS ON INQUIRER POLICY
Dear Members: Several of you have reached out with questions, concerns and objections to the newsroom policy on political activity that was issued yesterday following the leak of the draft U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding Roe v Wade. In part, it says “No outside personal, philosophical, or financial interests should conflict with staff members’ professional duties” […]
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GUILD FILES ANOTHER DISCRIMINATION GRIEVANCE
The Guild Executive Board unanimously voted Wednesday to file a second grievance against The Inquirer under our collective bargaining agreement for violation of Article 2, which prohibits discrimination against our members. The veteran member, who is Black, is paid considerably less than white colleagues with less experience performing similar jobs. For several years, the member has attempted to get the company to correct this […]
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UPDATE ON OUR INTERNSHIP PETITION
Update on our internship petition Thanks to everyone who signed and shared our change.org petition asking the Inquirer to reinstate its intern program. Several of you commented that you wouldn’t be here today, if it weren’t for your internship. In response to the petition, we heard from two area journalism professors dismayed about the cancellation of […]
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SOME TRUTHS
Dear Guild Friends: If you’ve ever had the benefit of therapy (and I highly recommend it), you know it is as much a painful self-assessment as it is an exercise in empowerment. I would argue so, too, is “Black City, White Paper.” We at The Inquirer got things wrong over the years and hurt […]
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DISCRIMINATION GRIEVANCE FILED
The Guild has exercised its authority under our collective bargaining agreement to file a grievance against The Inquirer for violation of Article 2, which prohibits discrimination against our members. The aggrieved member, who is Black, is paid less than a white colleague with less experience performing the same job. For months, the Guild has attempted to get the […]
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