Press Releases

The proposed merger of Comcast and NBC Universal raises real anti-trust concerns. If approved by regulators, this deal would create a mega-media company, one with the market power to determine what programs get aired and how much consumers must pay to view programming in every media outlet: cable, television and especially the Internet. This mega-company would control one out of every five viewing hours in the United States.

The Newspaper Guild-CWA, on behalf of its 30,000 members in Canada and the United States, expresses its solidarity with the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines in condemning the violence that has led to the loss of at least 57 lives, including a reported 22 journalists, two days ago.