City-Wide Guild News

Feb. 5, 2004

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Guild Members Walking the Line For UFCW Strikers
• Spanish Language Stylebook Now Available

Guild Members Picket In Support of UFCW Strikers In So. California

Fifteen members of The Newspaper Guild-CWA from around the country joined members of other unions on a Baltimore picketline to show their solidarity with more than 70,000 striking and locked out grocery workers in Southern California.

The Guild members had been attending a three-day conference near Baltimore.

The workers, members of the United Food and Commercial Workers, have been on strike against Safeway since early October in response to company demands to take away affordable family health coverage. Many striking or locked out workers at Safeway, Kroger and Albertsons are in deepening financial distress.

Baltimore AFL-CIO Council President Ernie Grecco led the spirited, chanting picketers in subfreezing weather Jan. 25th

outside the Boston Street Safeway store. Passing motorists and truck drivers honked their horns and waved their support to the picketers, and some shoppers reading the picket signs drove away to shop elsewhere.

Regarding the dispute as an attempt by three large and profitable grocery corporations to increase their profits at the expense of their employees’ health care, the AFL-CIO in late January launched a nationwide campaign to gain public support for the grocery workers, whose fight will be repeated in the coming months as workers in many industries struggle to maintain affordable health care.

Please join your fellow workers on picketlines in support of the California grocery workers, don’t shop Safeway, turn in your Safeway club card, and send a check to:

UFCW Strike Hardship Fund
Attn. Secretary-Treasurer Joe Hansen
1775 K St. NW
Washington, D.C. 20006

Or you may donate on-line through www.ufcw.org.

Hispanic Journalists Assoc. Offers Stylebook

The National Association of Hispanic Journalists, whose president is Juan Gonzalez of the New York Daily News, is releasing its first stylebook for Spanish-language journalists in the United States.

The stylebook, funded by the Knight Ridder corporation, will be launched this month on a six-city tour along with a traveling workshop by its chief editor on the proper use of Spanish in news coverage in the U.S.

This Manual de Estilo is a guide on grammar, the proper use of abbreviations and titles, and other style questions in news reporting done in Spanish.

The ten-chapter guide also addresses common problems with intonation and pronunciation on the air, and the tricky craft of translating stock market terms and government jargon in a predominantly English U.S. environment.

Journalists who work in Spanish-language media industry will also learn how to keep Spanglish from creeping into their work and stay away from words that may take on different -- and sometimes obscene -- meanings as vocabularies from a myriad of Latin American countries are forced to come together in the U.S.

To purchase a copy of the book for $14.95 or for more information, visit the NAHJ Web site at www.nahj.org.

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