Hard-working UMG members fuel GateHouse/New Media expansion

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...

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...

Reflections on the UMG’s last few decades

Guild Memories from Cara Gordon on Vimeo. If asked for a password, type "guild".

GateHouse journalists battle on for raises

Guild members at the Canton Repository recently rejected a three-year contract extension offer from GateHouse/New Media. Although the offer included signing bonuses spread through the length of the contract and some outsourcing protections for about 20 jobs, there were no...

Old friends gather for UMG’s 80th birthday celebration

The United Media Guild turned 80 this year. We held a picnic celebration at Creve Coeur Park and welcomed back many of our most prominent retirees and alumni. We were especially pleased to see long-time Executive Secretary Herb Goodrick, who...

United Media Guild celebrates 80th anniversary

The United Media Guild turned 80 this year. It formed as the St. Louis Newspaper Guild in January, 1934, joining a national movement to unionize newsroom and commercial operations employees. It began with 50 members from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch...