Nominations for 21st Annual Terry Hughes Award

Nominations for 21st Annual Terry Hughes Award

Terry Hughes was 36 when she died of breast cancer on July 22, 1991.  A columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, her writing was clear, witty and descriptive, with a flair for portraying society’s underdogs.  Some of her columns chronicled...

UMG Members Choose Executive Committee

  Through its recent nomination process, which saw no offices contested, the United Media Guild's Executive Committee in 2013 will consist of the following: President: Jeff Gordon. First VP: David Carson. Second VP: Joe Kenny. Treasurer: Tim Logan. Secretary: Doug...

Alfredo Pena to take helm at WIN

Our Workers Interfaith Network unit in Memphis is entering a new era. Founding executive director Rebekah Gienapp stepped aside after ten years and promoted the Guild's WIN unit chair Alfredo Pena to interim director. "The experience of motherhood has changed...

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,...

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...