Bureau
of National Affairs (BNA)
Correspondents
Unit
1231
25th Street N.W.,Washington, D.C. 20037
Despite
its name, the Bureau of National Affairs (BNA)
is not a government agency.
Originally
created as the national news desk of U.S.
News Corp., BNA began operations during the
Great Depression providing businesses with
the latest information on daily and weekly
governmental changes in business, trade and
tax regulations. During the Roosevelt administration
in the 1930's, emergency actions by the government
often resulted in new regulations being issued
every day, and BNA became one of the most
reliable sources of such regulatory information.
In
1947, owner/publisher David Lawrence sold
his "National Affairs" desk to some
of his managers. The new owners, in turn,
offered BNA employees an opportunity to buy
shares of the company, making BNA one of the
oldest employee-owned corporations in the
United States. (U.S. News went on to become
U.S. News and World Report magazine.)
Today,
BNA employs 26 correspondents nationwide who
report on state regulations and legislation
affecting labor, medical, insurance, and environmental
issues.
These
correspondents are represented by the Washington-Baltimore
Newspaper Guild, which represents them on
all issues of wages, benefits, and working
conditions.
In
addition to the correspondents, some 950 BNA
reporters, editors, customer service reps,
production workers, accounting staffers, computer
technicians and other workers at BNA's Washington
D.C.- and Rockville, Maryland-based operations
also are protected by a contract that is bargained
and enforced by the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper
Guild.
Local
32035 Staff Rep:
Paul
Reilly
Local
Representative
Work phone: 202-785-3650, x13
preilly@wbng.org
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