GUILD PENSION SAVED!!
Dear Guild Members, It is with delirious delight that Bill and I bring you news hot off the presses that our pension fund’s application for $292,173,268 from the American Rescue Plan HAS BEEN APPROVED. And it gets even better: the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is granting an additional $4,002,193.82 in interest (from the application submission date) for […]
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BARGAINING BEGINS!
Dear Guild members: Just a quick note to let you know that the Guild and The Inquirer begin bargaining today for a new collective agreement to replace the three-year contract that expires in March. Your bargaining team includes: Jonathan Lai, Amy Rosenberg, Bill Ross and me. As I have announced in the past, we have […]
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DESPICABLE, DISGRACEFUL LAYOFFS
Dear Guild members, It is with a mix of disgust and outrage that I report that four of our members, three from the newsroom and one from advertising, were laid off this morning. We hear over and over how our ownership here at The Inquirer “is different,” that ownership by a nonprofit does not involve […]
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Guild President Diane Mastrull elected to top News-Guild-CWA Post.
On Saturday January 7, 2023 News-Guild-CWA delegates nominated and elected by acclamation Diane Mastrull to a first 4 year term as Sector Chairperson. Mastrull is an editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer and president of The NewsGuild of Greater Philadelphia, TNG-CWA 38010. Mastrull will replace Martha Waggoner, who served as chair since 2011.
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JOIN THE NEW YORK TIMES SOLIDARITY STRIKE
Dear Guild Members:Unfortunately, yet another media company has decided that jerking our members around is how you show them how much you value them.Today our fellow Guild members at the New York Times are showing their disgust with this tactic and standing up for themselves with a one-day strike. Please join me in showing them […]
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BUYOUT/LAYOFFS/HYBRID WORK STATUS
Dear Guild Members, Just a quick update on where things stand with regard to the buyout, possible layoffs and the return-to-office plan at The Inquirer. At the urging of the Guild, the Company has extended the application deadline for those interested in the buyout to this Friday, Dec. 2. (It had been the Friday after […]
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BUYOUT BULL…
Dear Guild Members: Stunned to get a message from The Inquirer’s publisher speaking of “a tough economic climate,” inflation and a “likely” recession necessitating a buyout after just hearing at the last quarterly update about us hitting or exceeding all sorts of goals, including the much-prized digital subscriptions? Well, I’m not. Nothing coincidental about […]
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2023 NewsGuild Officers
OFFICIAL NEWSGUILD ELECTION NOTICE THE FOLLOWING CANDIDATES WERE ELECTED TO SERVE AS OFFICERS OF LOCAL 38010FOR 2023 PRESIDENT DIANE MASTRULL SECRETARY DONNA STOKES TREASURER ERIC CHURN 3 VICE PRESIDENTS MELANIE BURNEY 1ST VPAMY ROSENBERG 2ND VPCARL MELINE 3RD VP——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————-INQUIRER/LOCAL EXECUTIVE BOARD OFFICERS FOR 2023 UNIT CHAIRPERSON JONATHAN LAI VICE CHAIRPERSON TERESA CLINTON CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL! […]
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YOU SPOKE OUT, HERE’S THE ANSWER
Dear Guild Members: You spoke out and The Inquirer has responded. In overwhelming numbers, Inquirer staff told their shop stewards that they did not want to see their work appearing in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette while Guild members (along with other CWA locals and Teamsters) are on strike there. Executive Director Bill Ross and I communicated […]
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PLEASE DONATE TO STRIKER FUND
Dear Guild Friends: When one union has a battle, it never has to wage that fight alone. That is solidarity, the bedrock of a union. As I mentioned the other day, our local sent cheesesteaks to our striking colleagues at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. They were enthusiastically received. Our union will also now play an important […]
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