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BANG UPDATE NLRB expected to decide election issues and set date Anti-union consultant on the scene In the wake of our filing of a petition and signature cards calling for Guild representation, the National Labor Relations Board's Oakland staff has scheduled a hearing for next week at which some of us and some company representatives will testify about the parameters of the bargaining unit -- who's in, who's not. And once that's hashed out, we expect that an election date will be set.
Layoffs and buyouts announced at three more dailies Layoffs and buyouts have hit three more daily papers, with announcements of cutbacks in Colorado, Kentucky, and South Carolina.
Boulder's Camera newspaper has laid off nine of its 155 employees -- 6 percent of its staff -- in response to declining advertising revenues.
MediaNews customer service operations move to the Philippines Bay Area workers seeking to form Guild unit Newspaper chain MediaNews Group Inc. is outsourcing customer service operations for some of its California dailies -- including the San Jose Mercury News, one of the company's largest papers -- to the Philippines. Meanwhile, newsroom employees at the Oakland Tribune, Contra Costa Times and other newspapers in MediaNews Group's "Bay Area News Group-East Bay" unit are trying to form a union.
Pisani, editor of 2 Connecticut dailies, forced out? Joseph F. Pisani has abruptly exited as editor of two Connecticut dailies, The Advocate of Stamford and the Greenwich Time, the papers reported today.
BANG UPDATE BANG-EB organizers seek active participation Letter sent to Armstrong and Keane We all know that the industry is shifting quickly and dramatically, and at the moment it’s not a particularly hospitable place for journalists. We strongly believe that journalists facing such conditions must become more active participants in shaping their publications, and above all they must stand together.
Attempt to unionize Trib and CC Times Wins Support A months-long effort to unionize the newsrooms of the Oakland Tribune, the Contra Costa Times, and several other East Bay newspapers got a huge boost Friday when union officials revealed that "a strong majority" of reporters, photographers, and copy editors at the papers had signed union cards and were demanding a union election.
Union petitions feds for newspaper vote Newspaper workers petitioned federal officials on Friday to be recognized as a union, marking the latest move in a union-led effort to represent journalists employed by papers in the East Bay and San Mateo County. The journalists want the National Labor Relations Board to clear the way for an election to decide if the newspaper employees would be represented by a union.
Newspaper union stirring to life in the East Bay East Bay newspaper employees who have been alarmed at the declining quality of journalism took responsibility for their own futures on Friday by asking to be formally recognized as a union.Union organizers launched their campaign in October and after seven months of after-work meetings, thousands of e-mails and a lot of beer drinking, they were able to get a strong majority of the 250 eligible employees to sign guild cards.
S.F. Bay Area MediaNews Group employees file to unionize Nine months after MediaNews Group withdrew recognition of the Newspaper Guild unit at its Alameda Newspaper Group outside San Francisco, employees there and at five sister newspapers have petitioned for a new union vote.
Press Release Journalists announce majority support for new Guild at East Bay papers Journalists leading a guild organizing effort at the Bay Area's largest newspaper chain petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for formal recognition as a union today, the Northern California Media Workers Guild announced.
SPECIAL BANG UPDATE Employees file petition for BANG-EB unit A commanding majority of us, the newsroom employees of Bay Area News Group-East Bay, have signed authorization cards to form a guild. So today we took these cards to the National Labor Relations Board and formally petitioned for recognition as a union. It's a great moment. Today we declare our bold choice -- to believe in a better future for ourselves, for our newspapers and for journalism as a whole.
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