The United Media Guild

State Journal-Register campaign gains momentum at Illinois State Fair

Several of our members at the State Journal-Register in Springfield manned an informational booth at the AFC-CIO Pavilion at the Illinois State Fair this weekend. They met with other union leaders, discussed their fight with fairgoers and gathered hundreds of...

GateHouse/New Media rewards shareholders, not employees

New Media Investment Group, parent company at GateHouse Media, has delivered on its promise to reward shareholders with dividends. The second quarter produced free cash flow of $19.6 million, or $0.65 on a per-share basis. So the New Media Board...

Hard-working UMG members fuel GateHouse/New Media expansion

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

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

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...

Union recognition at ProVote!

  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...

Something rotten in Rockford

  On Tuesday, the Rockford Register Star’s executive editor, Mark Baldwin, sent an email to newsroom employees regarding the status quo provision under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and a situation that recently occurred at our bargaining table.  Baldwin...