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Date	Headlines
Jan. 20, 2012	WBNG Vice President Darlene Meyer Passes Away at Age 64
Jan. 13, 2012	Front Page Awards Entries Sought -- Entry Form
Dec. 6, 2011	It's Official: York (Pa.) Newspaper Guild Merges With WBNG
Dec. 5, 2011	Tentative Schedule for 2012 General Membership Meetings
Dec. 4, 2011	First General Membership Meeting of 2012 Scheduled for Jan. 28
Nov. 30, 2011	Last General Membership Meeting of 2011
Nov. 11, 2011	Voting Period Set for WBNG Board Election
Oct. 1, 2011	WBNG Dues Schedule
Sept. 23, 2011	Two Activists Nominated for Vacant Executive Board Seat
Aug. 26, 2011	Protecting Jobs and CBA Top Goals for BNA Unit If Bloomberg Buy Goes Through
Aug. 12, 2011	It's "Buyouts. Again." at the Baltimore Sun
July 27, 2011	President's Perspective: "Leading From Where We Stand"
July 27, 2011	It's Official: Post Guild Unit Ratifies Two-Year Contract
July 18, 2011	Long-Time Guild, Sun Activist Connie Knox Dies
June 2, 2011	Joplin Globe Employees Hammered by Hurricane
May 12, 2011	Upcoming Dates of Note
April 29, 2011	Former WBNG President Announces 'Retirement'
April 28, 2011	Guild Service Award Goes to ANA Unit's Certification Department
April 1, 2011	"Stand Up for Workers' Rights" Rally Set for BNA-Arlington
March 25, 2011	Post's Weymouth Takes Hefty Bonus and Raise: Does She Not Get It?
March 14, 2011	Sun Guild Members Ratify Three-Year Agreement
March 12, 2011	President's Perspective
March 4, 2011	Sun Unit to Vote on Proposed Three-Year Agreement
Feb. 28, 2011	2010 Front Page Awards Winners
Feb. 2, 2011	Bowling (for a) Just Cause
Jan. 16, 2011	General Membership Notice: Meeting Dates for 2011
Dec. 20, 2010	Sun to Guild: Members Not Required to Sign Up for All Text Alerts
Dec. 13, 2010	Front Page Awards Competition for Work Published in 2010
Dec. 13, 2010	WBNG Election Results: Executive Council Set for 2011-12
Nov. 10, 2010	Arbitration Ruling: Cantonese Broadcaster at RFA Must Be Reinstated
Nov. 5, 2010	Chicago Tribune Bankruptcy Update
Oct. 21, 2010	Guild, Sun Management Meet on Proposed Health Insurance Changes
Sept. 28, 2010	Former Sun Guild Member Is MacArthur Grant Winner
Aug. 2, 2010	BNA Correspondents Prepare for Bargaining
July 13, 2010	Sun Bulletin: Payroll Changes; Opportunity at U-Md.
May 20, 2010	Sun Bulletin: "Telling Our Stories" Project "Telling Our Stories" Web Page
May 12, 2010	Laid-Off Sun Workers Find an Online Voice
April 28, 2010	Guild Unit at RFA Challenges Two Discharges
April 21, 2010	Creditors' Deal at Sun: The Beginning of the End for Bankruptcy?
March 25, 2010	Front Page, Guild Service Awards for 2009
March 10, 2010	BNA Unit Members Ratify Three-Year Contract
Feb. 22, 2010	RFA Unit Members Ratify Three-Year Contract
Dec. 10, 2009	Official Notice of WBNG Membership Meetings 2010
Nov. 2, 2009	AFL-CIO Unit Signs One-Year Extension
May 1, 2009	Tribune Lays Off 61 in Sun Newsroom; 40 Are Guild-Represented Workers 104 Guild-Covered Post Employees Receive 'Voluntary Separation' Offers
March 13, 2009	Sun Journalists Win Top Front Page Awards Guild Service Awards
Jan. 16, 2009	Front Page, Guild Service Awards Competition Deadline Is Feb. 13
Dec. 4, 2008	Membership Nominates Officers for 2009-2010 Executive Council
Oct. 24, 2008	Council Nominations Open
Sept. 4, 2008	Five WBNG Units Seal New Deals
April 8, 2008	TNG International Candidates' Statements (As submitted to the Guild Reporter)
Jan. 7, 2008	CNS, UFCW Units Win New Deals Guild Contract at RFA Extended an Additional Month United American Nurses Unit Bargains One-Year Extension Entries Sought for Annual Front Page, Guild Service Awards
Oct. 25, 2007	UFCW, RFA Units Work Through Extensions APWU, DPE Work Out Significant New Deals
Aug. 24, 2007	UFCW, RFA Shops Gear Up for Bargaining AFL-CIO Unit Wins Contract -- Finally
April 27, 2007	Guild Unit Could Lose 42 in Buyout Baltimore Sun Proposal Unrelated to Sale of Parent Tribune Co.
March 13, 2007	Front Page, Guild Service Awards
Jan. 17, 2007	Front Page, Guild Service Awards Entry Deadline Set for Feb. 2 Awards Ceremony to Be Held March 26 AFP, CNS Units Sign Two-Year CBAs All in a Day's Work: E-L&A Unit Bargains, Ratifies New Contract Fingerhut Unit Goes Out of Business
Nov. 24, 2006	Nominations for Local 32035 Executive Council At-Large Units "Unit" to Hold Election
Oct. 27, 2006	Guild Council Nominations Open Elections to Decide Top Four Officers, At-Large Delegates 'Kaiser Coalition' Staff Joins WBNG TNG Secretary-Treasurer Opinion: 'If Not Us, Who? If not Now, When?' Catholic News Unit Presses for Contract Solidarity Center Guild Members Win New Agreement AFL-CIO, Guild Agree to Put Contract Talks on Hold
Aug. 25, 2006	BNA Correspondents Report 19% Pay Hikes in Four-Year Deal Jobs With Justice Unit Wins First Guild Contract AFL-CIO Unit Heads Into Negotiations
April 28, 2006	121 Guild-Covered Workers Offered Buyouts at Post Catholic News Employees Struggle for Renewal 3 WBNG Members Win Pulitzers
March 10, 2006	BNA Unit Gains Flexibility, Wins Raises Topping 4% Per Year Front Page, Guild Service Awards
January 10, 2006	Front Page Guild Service Awards: Entry Deadline Set for January 31 Martin Luther King Jr.’s Labor Legacy
November 2005	Washington Post Contract Ratified
September, 2005	Parks Selected as WBNG's New Administrative Officer
May 26, 2005	Pay for Performance Coming to the Sun A Few Words From Departing Admin. Officer Lori Calderone
March 15, 2005	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
Jan. 10, 2005	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
Oct. 18, 2004	Nominations Open for 2005 Delegates to Executive Council Proposed Green Zone on Agenca of General Membership Meeting Former WBNG President Warren Howard Dies
Aug. 23, 2004	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
May 5, 2004	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
March 24, 2004	Guild Service and Front Page Award Winners Anounced - Presentation on April 12th
March 5 , 2004	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"
Jan. 22, 2004	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
Jan. 12, 2004	Feb. 20 Deadline for Guild Service, Front Page Awards Entries
Dec. 1, 2003	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
Oct. 31, 2003	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
Sept. 2, 2003	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
April 28, 2003	BNA Guild members OK New Contract Kudos to Guild Pulitzer Awardees! Meany Center/National Labor College Contract Ratified Nomination/Election of Secretary NLRB Backs Guild Complaint Organizing: Who Got You to Join the Union? Unions Make Life Better Know Your Family and Medical Leave Rights! EDUCATION CORNER:The Union Advantage - Job Security
March 2003	Tentative Agreement Reached in BNA Contract Talks BNA Contract Mobilization Scrapbook
February 2003	Results of Local 32035 Election for 2003 Front Page Award Winners Announced
December 2002	Guild Seeks Reinstatement Of Journal Employees Fired During Organizing Campaign
Nov. 26, 2002	Early Deadline for Front Page Awards
Oct. 28, 2002	Nominations Open for Executive Council
May 23, 2002	SEIU Local 500's Bonita Spikes Is First Recipient Of Herb Block Community Serivce Award
Feb. 6, 2002	Local to Issue Herb Block Community Serivce Award
Jan. 11, 2002	Membership Approves Amended By-Laws
December 2001	Cartoonist Herblock Leaves $50,000 Apiece to WBNG, TNG
October 2001	'Shadow' Members Cast Cloud Over Local Behind Every Guild Dues-Payer Lurks the Free-Riding Non-Member
September 2001	Guild Members' Information Link Online @ wbng.org
June 2001	New Leadership on Staff and Executive Council
Miscellaneous Forums 2000-2005	August, October, November, December 2000 PDFs of 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Guild Forums