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New England Locals Fight for Contracts
Members of the Newspaper Guild-CWA at three New England newspapers are fighting to safeguard jobs and quality health care and to win fair contracts.
The 420 members of CWA Local 31041 at the Providence Journal in Rhode Island got a big boost as CWA members from District 1 rallied outside newspaper headquarters during the union's recent district meeting in Providence.
TNG-CWA members have been fighting the Journal's anti-union tactics and its effort to block the bargaining of a fair contract for nearly four years. Newspaper management has been found guilty of 27 federal labor law violations by a National Labor Relations board judge, and it recently lost a round in U.S. District Court, as a federal judge ruled for the local on the continued collection of dues. The Journal is owned by the Dallas-based Belo Corp.
Despite revenues this year of $608 million for its four-newspaper group, management continues to insist on cuts in health care coverage and vacation days and won't engage in talks, said Local Administrator Tim Schick. The parties haven't met since workers rejected a management proposal in July.
The Providence local has been mobilizing community support and will turn a very public spotlight on the Journal's tactics at a Jobs with Justice workers' rights board forum on Dec. 10. A radio ad campaign also is alerting the public to the Journal's pattern of lawbreaking and its demands for more cuts in workers' benefits.
Another 275 members of Local 31041 who work at the Worcester (Mass.) Telegram and Gazette are in a long-term fight for a first contract. Workers at the New York Times Co.-owned paper have rejected management's demand to cut jobs and contract out work and are pressing a fight for fair treatment. The unit includes 200 newsroom employees and 75 in the circulation department.
At the Boston Globe, also owned by the New York Times Co., contracting out, management's demand to ignore seniority for lay offs, and health care cuts are among the top issues for the 1,200 advertising, newsroom and circulation department workers, members of TNG-CWA Local 31032.
Workers in commercial and advertising jobs would be particularly harmed by management's demand to allow any employee of the New York Times Co. to sell advertising for the Globe.
The Globe workers have held several rallies and demonstrations outside the paper and are participating in a Dec. 10 action organized by Jobs with Justice at the state capital. The local also is planning a workers' rights board forum to focus attention on the Globe's refusal to bargain fairly.
The 420 members of CWA Local 31041 at the Providence Journal in Rhode Island got a big boost as CWA members from District 1 rallied outside newspaper headquarters during the union's recent district meeting in Providence.
TNG-CWA members have been fighting the Journal's anti-union tactics and its effort to block the bargaining of a fair contract for nearly four years. Newspaper management has been found guilty of 27 federal labor law violations by a National Labor Relations board judge, and it recently lost a round in U.S. District Court, as a federal judge ruled for the local on the continued collection of dues. The Journal is owned by the Dallas-based Belo Corp.
Despite revenues this year of $608 million for its four-newspaper group, management continues to insist on cuts in health care coverage and vacation days and won't engage in talks, said Local Administrator Tim Schick. The parties haven't met since workers rejected a management proposal in July.
The Providence local has been mobilizing community support and will turn a very public spotlight on the Journal's tactics at a Jobs with Justice workers' rights board forum on Dec. 10. A radio ad campaign also is alerting the public to the Journal's pattern of lawbreaking and its demands for more cuts in workers' benefits.
Another 275 members of Local 31041 who work at the Worcester (Mass.) Telegram and Gazette are in a long-term fight for a first contract. Workers at the New York Times Co.-owned paper have rejected management's demand to cut jobs and contract out work and are pressing a fight for fair treatment. The unit includes 200 newsroom employees and 75 in the circulation department.
At the Boston Globe, also owned by the New York Times Co., contracting out, management's demand to ignore seniority for lay offs, and health care cuts are among the top issues for the 1,200 advertising, newsroom and circulation department workers, members of TNG-CWA Local 31032.
Workers in commercial and advertising jobs would be particularly harmed by management's demand to allow any employee of the New York Times Co. to sell advertising for the Globe.
The Globe workers have held several rallies and demonstrations outside the paper and are participating in a Dec. 10 action organized by Jobs with Justice at the state capital. The local also is planning a workers' rights board forum to focus attention on the Globe's refusal to bargain fairly.