Press Releases

Washington, D.C. -- The Communications Workers of America and the Association of Flight Attendants are exploring a partnership that will enhance and expand representation of airline workers at both unions.

Washington, D.C. -- The second Herbert Block Freedom Award, named for the late political cartoonist who was one of the Guild's longest tenured members, will be presented May 6 to Northwestern University's Medill Innocence Project, directed and founded by journalism professor David Protess.

Washington, D.C.--Andy Furillo of the Sacramento Bee has been awarded the 2002 Broun Award for his two-part series on the 30-year decline of a Sacramento neighborhood, Franklin Villa, from a flourishing community of tidy homes to blocks of crime-ridden, substandard housing.

To best preserve the widest possible dissemination and diversity of information to the public, the Federal Communications Commission should safeguard the media from consolidation into fewer hands, Linda Foley, president of The Newspaper Guild-Communications Workers of America, told FCC commissioners

Washington, DC --The Federal Communications Commission missed an opportunity to set out an effective, national policy that would promote facilities-based competition in telecommunications, the Communications Workers of America said.