Executive Committee Nominations

Executive Committee Nominations

Thursday, November 8, Local 36047 will have two local nomination meetings - at noon and 6:00 p.m. - in the Guild office (1015 Locust St, suite 735) for all Executive Committee positions.  The positions are three-year terms and will run from...

Guild still feels Jerry Tucker’s influence

The United Media Guild lost a valued colleague when labor activist Jerry Tucker passed away Friday. Jerry was an innovative and nationally prominent strategist based in St. Louis. He served as Director of UAW Region 5 before helping found the...

State Journal-Register “overwhelmingly” votes Guild

By a vote of 26 to 4, newsroom employees at the Springfield, IL State Journal-Register sent a strong message to their management while forging a new direction for their newspaper.  Six weeks previously, the United Media Guild submitted signed authorization...

A call for leadership

Long-time United Media Guild activist Barry Gilbert recently made this plea to his former Post-Dispatch colleagues via our UMG Facebook group: “I woke up this morning worrying about the Guild. Our ranks have been decimated, and of course so has...

Facts about retiree settlement checks

  Please note that your settlement check envelope, which should be arriving any minute, looks EXACTLY like your pension check stub envelope.  DON'T THROW IT AWAY - there's a check inside!   Also, contrary to what we had been told,...

Why Springfield needed Guild representation

October 12 was election day at the Springfield State Journal-Register. Reporters, photographers, editors and newsroom aides will decide whether the United Media Guild should represent them. We encouraged our members to reach out to their colleagues in Springfield and describe...

Peoria Unit applauds Guild efforts in Springfield

Peoria Unit Chair Phil Luciano has this message for journalists at the Springfield State Journal-Register: We fight the same fight that you fight: to be able to do our jobs and receive fair compensation. But the newspaper industry continues to...