About Tribune Watch

01 Jan 2006

The Newspaper Guild

ABOUT US

Founded as a print journalists' union in 1936, the Guild today is primarily a media union whose members are diverse in their occupations, but who share the view that the best working conditions are achieved by people who have a say in their workplace.

We are online writers, designers and producers, reporters, columnists, editorial assistants, photographers, editors, researchers, paginators, copy editors, editorial artists, correspondents, typographers, advertising sales people, marketing, information systems specialists, translators and interpreters, commercial artists, technicians, accountants, business, customer service reps, drivers, maintenance, mail room, pressroom, telephone operators, circulation and distribution staff at wire services, newspapers, magazines, broadcast news, public service and dot com companies in the United States, Canada and in Puerto Rico

 
MISSION STATEMENT

Form and institutionalize a network of union locals and non-union employees within Tribune properties to:

1. Provide mutual support to build a more secure and productive work environment for workers within the chain.

2. Help Tribune and its workers become leaders into the future of new technologies and evolving media jobs.

OVERALL GOALS

1. Become a resource for the timely gathering and dissemination of information concerning all aspects of Tribune operations, including:

a. Union and management collective bargaining proposals, trends and tactics

b. Corporate and local financial disclosures

c. Legal and arbitration hearings

d. Notable personnel changes in management

e. Other items of interest concerning developments within the chain and/or its properties and within unions or union locals representing employees in the chain

2. Provide mutual support

3. Coordinate bargaining and legal strategies

4. Begin and maintain a dialogue over the future of the industry and how Tribune employees can most successfully move themselves and the companies they work for into the New Media era.

5. Use work of the Project and, where possible, pooled resources to mobilize within existing locals and to organize non-union workers within the chain.

6. Assist displaced workers.