The United Media Guild

UMG honors Bill McClellan, top activists

[caption id="attachment_2423" align="alignright" width="300"] Bill McClellan and previous Hughes winner Joel Currier.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_2424" align="alignright" width="300"] Guilder of the Year Joe Holleman addresses his fellow UMG members.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_2425" align="alignright" width="300"] Stanley Jackson accepted the Solidarity Award on behalf of...

UMG works to distinguish real news from marketing content

Protecting the craft of journalism is one of the United Media Guild's most important tasks. We have fought hard to prevent journalists from being assigned to write advertorial copy, particularly for the GateHouse Newspapers chain. A journalist's job is to...

GateHouse offers to end eternal pay freeze

Bargaining between the NewsGuild-CWA and GateHouse Media has resulted in a global agreement for all Guild represented newspapers currently owned by GateHouse. Those newspapers include United Media Guild units at the Peoria Journal Star, State Journal-Register, Pekin Daily Times, Rockford...

Nominations sought for 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...

Los Angeles Times journalists seek to unionize with The NewsGuild-CWA

The NewsGuild-CWA is fighting to preserve the craft of journalism and improve working conditions for journalists across North America. Journalists at news organizations large and small have come to TNG-CWA seeking to unionize. Recently the Los Angeles Times newsroom filed...

UMG retirees and alumni gather for their annual luncheon

The United Media Guild hosted about 40 retiree members at its annual Retiree/Alumni Luncheon Nov. 28 at Lombardo's in St. Louis. It was great to see former UMG business representative Mary Casey and former UMG office at the event, along...

Fight For 15 Workers join UMG

The United Media Guild has proudly represented fast food organizers since the early days of the "Fight For 15" movement. Most recently we were the staff union for the (then) Mid-South Organizing Committee staffers in Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee and Louisiana....