BNA Figures Show Guild Employee
Health-Care Costs Are Declining
According to figures provided by BNA, the company's increasing health-care expenses are not due to increased spending on Guild-covered employees.
BNA Unit 2010 Contract Talks Index

Entries Sought for Front Page Awards
Guild members have until Feb. 1 at 5 p.m. to enter their best work in the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild’s annual Front Page Awards. Just the FAQs.

President's Perspective
Guild Joined by Large, SymboIic Rat
In Show of Solidarity at Reuters
(Jan. 29) Over lunch hour on a crisp, clear day, WBNG members joined with their brothers and sisters from the New York Guild in an informational picket line outside Reuters offices near the White House. In declaring impasse at the bargaining table, writes Mark Pattison, management at the profitable international news operation is acting like the giant inflatable rat that also took part in the demonstration.
Bowling for Dollars "Ah, the burdens of leadership," writes Pattison. "It’s not enough being president of a Newspaper Guild local: I have to anchor a bowling team," which put it all on the line(s) at a recent fund-raiser.
Union Privilege: The Gift That Keeps on Giving Pattison notes that he's not the first Guild member to wonder why the union doesn't do a better job of promoting the Union Privilege program.
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Hail Fellowship Well Met
A substantial grant to the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild is helping 28 Baltimore Sun workers who were surprised with layoff notices in April.

Tracking Health-Care Reform
Keeping tabs on issues for the CWA Health Care Campaign is former WBNG president and current Executive Council member Bill Salganik.
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Local on Tribune Creditors' Committee
The Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild-CWA is one of nine members of the creditors' committee in the bankruptcy filing by Tribune Co. Track the Tribune