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Hard-working UMG members fuel GateHouse/New Media expansion
July 23, 2014
GateHouse Media newspapers generate strong cash flow for its parent company, New Media Investment Group. That parent company -- which grew from the ashes of GateHouse Media bankruptcy -- is using some of that cash flow to help finance newspaper...
UMG supports “Right to Report” project
July 21, 2014
The United Media Guild is gladly helping The Newspaper Guild's "Right to Report" project. At the national level your union is supporting a national shield law to project journalists doing their job. TNG-CWA also called on President Obama and Attorney...
GateHouse targets Rockford Register Star photographers
July 14, 2014
The two surviving photographers at the Rockford Register Star and Freeport Journal-Standard are under siege. During the latest round of bargaining with the United Media Guild for a first contract at these newspapers, the company submitted a proposal that would...
July 11, 2014
Matthew Patterson, executive director of Missouri Progressive Vote Coalition (ProVote), signs a recognition agreement today with the United Media Guild. Witnessing are the Reverend Teresa Danieley, rector of St. John's Episcopal Church, UMG Administrative Officer Shannon Duffy and Ashli...