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• Pay for Performance Coming to the Sun
• A Few Words From Departing Admin. Officer Lori Calderone

• Battling Hostile Publishers: Guild struggles at two newspapers.
• Sun/Tribune Publisher Donates To Striking Guild Members In Ohio
• Sun Sweeps Front Page Awards
• CWA, AFL-CIO Say: Buy Cingular

• Front Page and Guild Service Awards Entry Deadline Jan.31 : Master of Ceremonies for March 28 event is Tom Sherwood
• Back to the Green Way : For the last few months, WBNG has been involved in a discussion of whether we should be involved in politics, which should culminate in a vote at the January 29th meeting.
• New Contract Ratified by Guild AFP Members
• Guild, Radio Free Asia Reach Tentative Contract Agreement

• Nominations Open for 2005 Delegates to Executive Council
• Proposed Green Zone on Agenca of General Membership Meeting
• Former WBNG President Warren Howard Dies

• The Guild's Political and Community Green Zone: In this special issue of the Guild Forum, we asked Guild members to express their views on the Guild’s role in all things political. 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon
• Guild Wins Another Arbitration Case For SEIU Local 500 Members
• NLRB Issues Complaint Against Sun Over Failure to Bargain in Good Faith
• Guild Wins Discharge Arbitration for Sun Employee

• WBNG Member Anthony Shadid Wins Pulitzer For International Reporting
• TNG President Foley to Deliver State of Union Message at Guild Confab
• WBNG Secretary and At-Large Positions
• Replacements To Be Nominated At Sept. Meeting

• Guild Service and Front Page Award Winners Anounced -- Presentation on April 12

• Guild Grieves Sun’s Christmas Holiday Layoff
• Executive Council At-Large Vacancies to be Filled at March 20 Meeting
• We Remember Our Friend and Guild Member, Bill Lee
• WBNG Wins APWU Comp Time Arbitration
• Black History Month: “A Good Press is a Diverse Press"

• Farewell: 43 Post Guild Veterans Take Buyout
• "A Place to Have a Life" -- A Post Member's Appreciation of the Union
• Probe of Union's Strengths, Weaknesses Continues at Feb. 7 Guild Membership Meeting
• Nominations Open for Local Delegates to TNG Sector Conference, CWA Convention
• WBNG Members Support California Strikers
• Guild Service & Front Page Awards Entries and Nominations Open

Feb. 20 Deadline for Guild Service, Front Page Awards Entries
Three new awards and restoration of cash prizes for major awards will mark WBNG’s Guild Service and Front Page Awards this year. The awards ceremony is scheduled for March 29, 2004 at the AFL-CIO.New awards will be given for Customer Service Professional of the Year, for International Reporting and for Cartoons and Guild Unit of the Year. That will expand the number of awards to 33.

• Workers’ Rights Are Human Rights!
• Help Expand And Protect Workers’ Rights To Form Unions
• Striking California Grocery Store Workers’ Battle Is Our Battle, Too
• Notable Quotes

• WBNG Honors Workers Who Rake in the Revenue
• TNG Sets Strategic Forum, Jan. 23-25
• Employers Turn to Workers for Cost Savings
• In Labor History, 100 Years Ago
• Support The Union Choice For Charitable Giving
• Freedom Riders Highlight Human Rights Issues
• Day of Action to Restore the Freedom to Form Unions and Bargain Collectively
• WBNG Welcomes New and Returning Members
• Applications for 2004 Union Plus Scholarship Program Now Available
• Shop On-Line for Union-Made-in-the-USA Products

• At The Sun, Members Choose Unity
• In Passing
• Fired Journal Newspaper Writers Win Lost Pay From Publisher
• Radio Free Asia Votes Overwhelmingly for the Guild
• BNA Correspondents Win Major Wage Boosts
• WBNG Members Win Four-Year Contract At Postal Workers Union Headquarters
• Rights@Work Resolution Passed By WNBG Executive Council
• Guild Members: Support Our Labor Family

• Tentative Agreement Reached in BNA Contract Talks
• BNA Contract Mobilization Scrapbook

February 2003
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• Results of Local 32035 Election for 2003
• Front Page Award Winners Announced

• Guild Seeks Reinstatement of Journal Employees Fired in Organizing Campaign
• Entry Deadline Fast Approaching for Front Page, Guild Service Award
• Statements of Candidates Running in the Local 32035 General Elections

• Early Deadline Approaching for Front Page Awards Competition
• Nominations Open for Outstanding Service to the Guild

• Executive Council Nominations Open
  Membership to Choose Officers, At Large Delegates, Sector and Convention Delegates
  
• WBNG Hosts Southern District Council Meeting Nov. 9, 10
  
• We Make The Post!!
  The 1454-member Guild unit at the Washington Post shows its greatest surge of activism in two decades as union activists in news and commercials departments lead an increasing level of actions geared toward pressuring a hostile Post management to resolve the contractual dispute.

• Local Honors Front Page Award Winners
  Pulitzer Winners from Washington Post Clinch Local's Investigative Award
  Two Baltimore Sun reporters were named Grand Prize winners and best in their categories in Local 32035's Front Page Awards for work published in 2001. Three Washington Post reporters whose work also won a Pulitzer Prize earlier this year received the Morton Mintz Award for Investigative Reporting for their work.
• SEIU's Bonnita Spikes Named First Recipient of Herb Block Community Service Award
  Bonnita Spikes, an activist in one of the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild's smallest bargaining units, is the recipient of the first Herb Block Community Service Award.

Jan.-Feb. 2002
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• Local to Issue New 'Herb Block Community Service Award'
  A new service award, the "Herb Block Community Service Award" has been added to the roster of honors bestowed annually by the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild. The newest award commemorates the life and service of Herbert Block, the editorial cartoonist known to millions of newspaper readers as Herblock. Block, a member of the very first Newspaper Guild local in Cleveland in 1933, died last year at the age of 91, and left a substantial bequest to WBNG.
• Let the Contest Begin! Local Accepting Submissions for Front Page and Guild Service Awards
  Competition for Guild Service Awards -- as well as for the Front Page Awards -- has officially begun. The deadline for submitting entries is Monday, April 1.
• What the Guild Has Meant to the Post's Judy Mann
  In a flyer distributed to the Post Guild unit, recently retired Post columnist Judy Mann tells her Guild colleagues ... "Both times I needed help from the Guild, I got it. ... I want all of my colleagues to know what the Guild has done to improve working conditions at the Post. I know that sometimes we feel the Guild is David going up against Goliath, but I have seen the Guild prevail."
• Surprisingly Fast Work Forges New Deal at FAST
  Experiencing the unit's smoothest negotiations in memory, Guild members at the Food and Allied Service Trades Department/Research Associates of America (FAST) won a four-year contract in early January that gives staffers raises of about 13 percent in the first year of the agreement. Each of the bargaining unit's five staffers will be granted the hefty pay hike on the anniversary of his or her hire-date.

• Local 32035 Members Approve Amended By-laws
  By a ratio of 4 to 1, Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild members voted in early January to amend the Local 32035 by-laws.
• Four "New" Local-wide Delegates Elected to WBNG Council
  Members elect five local-wide delegates to represent them on the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild Executive Council.
• At-Large Units 'Unit' Chooses 5 Board Reps
  At its annual meeting to elect officers and delegates to the Local 35 Executive Council, the WBNG At-Large units "unit" (ALU) by acclamation re-elected Mark Gruenberg to the post of unit chair and elected Mary Watters (Fingerhut, Powers, Smith & Associates) to the post of vice chair.
• One-Quarter of WBNG Units Win New Contracts in Last Quarter Last Year
  Six of the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild's 21 units won new contracts in the last three months of 2001. The units range in size from the 80-plus-member shop at the headquarters of the United Food and Commercial Workers international union, to the four-member editorial staff at E-L & Associates.
• Catholic News News: New Four-Year Pact
  About two dozen Guild members at Catholic News Service have won a four-year agreement that features raises of at least 3.75 percent each year.
• MCCSSE Unit Gains in New Contract
  The Guild's single-figure-member unit at SEIU 500, the Montgomery County Council of Supporting Services Employees (MCCSSE), voted unanimously Nov. 9 to accept a two-year pact to replace the agreement that had expired in July.
• Housing Newsletter Workers Win Nearly 15% Raise in 3-Year Pact
  A three-year agreement was reached in December between E-L & Associates and its four Guild employees. The new pact provides annual raises of 4.5 percent, 4.75 percent and 5 percent in base salaries, or nearly 15 percent over three years.
• Guild's Sixth-Largest Unit Wins New Pact
  Guild members at the international headquarters of the United Food & Commercial Workers union will receive annual wage increases of 3.5 percent to 6.6 percent in a four-year agreement ratified Dec. 13.

Nov.-Dec. 2001

Nov.-Dec. 2001
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• The Generosity of a Member -- Cartoonist Herblock Leaves $50,000 Each to WBNG, TNG
  Washington Post cartoonist Herblock's will included a $50,000 gift to the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild (WBNG) and a like amount to our parent union, The Newspaper Guild (TNG).
• The Generosity of a Guild Unit -- BNA Guild Members Help Raise Funds for D.C. Labor's Social Agency
  Concerned about the plight of thousands of Washington area workers impacted by the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, the BNA Guild unit held a bazaar Nov. 14 to help raise funds for the Community Services Agency. Guild members and other BNA employees turned out in force to buy an array of donated gift items, services, and baked goods. More than $1,500 was raised through the noontime bazaar.
• American Postal Workers Unit's Perserverance Pays Off
  The Local's new Guild unit at the headquarters of the American Postal Workers Union reaches a collective bargaining agreement with APWU management Oct. 5.
• NCH Staff Finds a Home for Its Initial Guild Pact
  Less than a year after organizing a Guild unit to represent their workplace, Guild members at the National Coalition for the Homeless signed their first contract.
• Agence France-Presse Unit Wins One-Year Extension
  In a rare example of a media organization and its employees working together during troubled financial times, Guild-covered employees approved a one-year contract extension at Agence France-Presse Dec. 14.
• Transitions & Transactions
  Read all the news about your local Guild friends and colleagues.
• Through the Lens: Washington Post Doings

• Executive Council Nominations Open
  Members to nominate local officers as well as delegates to the executive council, TNG Sector Conference and CWA Convention.
• 'Shadow' Non-Members Cast Cloud Over Local
  Nestled quietly behind every Guild member lurks the shadowy non-member.
• President's Perspective
  WBNG President Dawn Lamar urges members to help victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.
• APWU Wins First Guild Pact; AFP Gains Extension
• Bylaws Panel to Present Proposals
  Proposed amendments to WBNG bylaws.

Sept. 1, 2001

September, 2001
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• WBNG Web Site -- Get Online With the Guild
  The local Guild's Web site (www.wbng.org) becomes the main information link to and among WBNG Guild members.
• President's Perspective
  Local President Dawn Lamar urges members to take action.
• Guild Training Offered
  Schedule of upcoming seminars.
• Local Welcomes New Guild Staffer
• Designate Your United Way Contribution to Community Services Agency

May-June 2001

May-June 2001
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• President's Perspective
• Sun's Kawajiri and Jackson; Post's Perl Win Front Page 'Grand Prize' Awards
• The Winners . . .
• Guild Activists Honored For Service to Members
• CWA Denies WBNG Election Challenge
• Calderone Takes Charge
• Transitions & Transactions
• Local Motion

March-April 2001
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• Nurses' Staff Unit Wins First Guild Pact
• Post Taken to Task on Digital 'Volunteers'
• Local Election Challenge Moved to CWA

Feb. 12, 2001

February 2001
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• Guild Members Elect Officers, At-Large Council Members
• Members Oppose Contract Renewal for Top Local Staffer

• Candidates' Statements
• Candidates for contested local Guild offices make their pitch to the voters.
• Candidates for Vice President
• Candidates for Treasurer
• Candidates for At-Large Delegate
• Already Elected
  Some candidates have already been elected. Find out who and why.
• Sample Ballot
  What will your ballot look like? Take a peek.
• Referendum
  Guild members also will be voting on a referendum issue. Learn more about it.
• Ballot Dates, Times and Location
  Your complete guide on where and when to cast your vote.

December 2000

• President's Perspective:
  Connie Knox bids farewell as she ends her 12-year tenure as local president.
• Feds Tell BNA It Can't Restrict Guild's Use of E-Mail System
  The Bureau of National Affairs agrees to rescind its e-mail policy in response to a National Labor Relations Board "directed settlement" of an Unfair Labor Practice charge filed by the Guild. The settlement was the result of negotiations between the federal board and the company.
• Post's Curious Posture on Freedom of Speech
  A representative of long-time freedom of speech proponent The Washington Post calls on Local 35 members and staff to "immediately cease distributing Guild literature to Washington Post employees by e-mail."
• Kamber Unit Gains Big in 3-Year Pact
  With each employee set to receive three 5.5 percent "anniversary date" raises, Kamber Group Guild unit members unanimously ratified a three-year bargaining agreement Oct. 27. The vote came two days before the most recent pact was set to expire.
• Six-Pack of WBNG Pacts Expire in 2001
  Three Guild units are still re-negotiating contracts that expired this year, while members at six other Guild-represented workplaces prepare for bargaining on pacts expire in 2001.
• Guild Loses Unit in IUE-CWA Merger
  With 10 months to go on a collective bargaining agreement, about a dozen Guild members at the International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, Machine and Furniture Workers no longer were represented by the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild as a result of IUE's merger with CWA.
• First Call to Honor Members' Work in 2000
  This is your first notice to get your entries in for the Front Page Awards contest sponsored by the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild. The prizes honor Guild members' work for publications in 2000.
• By-laws: Units Must Hold Annual Elections
  The WBNG by-laws require Guild units to hold annual elections for unit office. Here are the requirements and timeframes.
• Transitions & Transactions
  All the latest news and gossip from the local's units.

Nov. 28, 2000

Nominations for Local 32035 Executive Council
The following Guild members were nominated at the November 18 General Membership meeting to serve as officers of the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild for the year 2001 (each candidate's Guild unit follows his or her name):

October 2000

President's Perspective:
Impressions from Convention Delegates.

Local Strong at International Gathering
The Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild had a hand in the biggest legislative accomplishment of the recent Newspaper Guild sector convention in Anaheim: A new collective bargaining program was approved by conference delegates. By Mark Pattison of
Catholic News Service.

Select Sector Conference Snapshots
Change was definitely a theme throughout The Newspaper Guild-CWA's 2000 Sector Conference. A brief view of conference business by David Bates, At-Large Unit.

Guild Unit, Labor Federation Reach Tentative Agreement
After a five-month battle, Guild members at the AFL-CIO on Sept. 8 reached a tentative agreement with the labor federation on a new contract.

Local 35 Organizing Nets Four New Shops
With the addition of four new units, the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild has seen its ranks swell by nearly 200 members this year.

Members Take Part in Democratic Process
Local 32035 had two members attending the 2000 Democratic National Convention without press credentials.Guild members Daniel Duncan and Lynn Clark were in Los Angeles on official Democratic Party business.

Transitions & Transactions
All the latest news and gossip from the local's units.

August 2000

President's Perspective:
Connie Knox on Political Activism

The Guild, 'Soft Money,' Your Dues:
The Washington Post's Keith Sinzinger on Partisan Politics and Your Dues

BNA Members Ratify 3-Year Pact
After first rejecting a "final offer" that did not include full retroactivity, Newspaper Guild members at the Bureau of National Affairs ratified a new contract June 27 that provides an average raise of 2.6 percent per year-or nearly 8 percent over the three-year agreement.

Small Unit Gains Large in New Contract:
The eight-member Guild unit at Fingerhut, Powers, Smith & Associates dug in and then held on in the process of making several large gains in a new three-year contract.

Transitions & Transactions
All the latest news and gossip from the local's units.