The United Media Guild

Top UMG officers return for new terms

The United Media Guild held two local meetings Wednesday for the purpose of receiving nominations for unit and local-wide officers. The result: No contested offices and the return of each of the UMG-wide officers to their position. Returning for new...

Executive Committee Nominations

Wednesday, October 21, Local 36047 will have two local nomination meetings – at noon and 6:00 p.m. – in the Guild office (1015 Locust St, suite 735) for all Executive Committee positions.  The positions are three-year terms and will run from...

UMG hosts retiree/alumni luncheon Oct. 27

All retirees and alumni of the United Media Guild are invited to a luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Oct. 27 at Lombardo's Trattoria,  201 S. 20th Street in downtown St. Louis, next to Union Station. The luncheon is free for retirees...

UMG campaign against GateHouse Media intensifies

The United Media Guild's public campaign on behalf of State Journal-Register members is continuing on multiple fronts. The UMG has been negotiating a first contract at the newspaper for three years. Many veteran journalists at the newspapers have gone eight...

UMG active in multiple cities at the same time (it’s a Labor Day miracle!)

Labor Day is almost here and union members are busy making plans to turn out and march in a parade or perhaps attend some sort of festive activity.  Members of the United Media Guild are no exception; come Monday, UMG...

We’ve come a long way

Selections from Chicago Poems by Carl Sandburg about child labor.   They Will Say Of my city the worst that men will ever say is this: You took little children away from the sun and the dew, And the glimmers...

A message from Liz Shuler, Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO:

We're asking people to support the U.S. Department of Labor’s new overtime rules because they will give working people—particularly women, youth and people of color—more time and money to care for their families. There's one more week before the comment...