The Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild

TNG-CWA, Local 32035

The Journal Newspapers

In July of 2002, reporters at the Lanham, Maryland-based Prince George’s Journal and at their sister paper, the Rockville-based Montgomery Journal, launched a drive to unionize their workplaces into units of the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild.

But within a month, Journal publisher Ryan Phillips hired union-busting consultants to scare the employees and thwart their effort to unionize.

In early December of 2002, publisher Phillips fired the entire Lanham news staff of The Prince George’s Journal and virtually all reporters at the Montgomery Journal.

The News Continues!

Get the news that you can't get in the Journal Newspapers anymore.

Click here to read the Journal Voice newsletter -- local news produced by the unjustly fired Journal employees!

Since the Dec. 6 "Journal massacres", the dismissed employees and the Guild have filed legal challenges to publisher Phillips' blatant violation of labor law.

Meanwhile, the staff-less Maryland newspapers are now produced in Virginia and have become mere shadows of their former selves, containing primarily wire service copy, warmed-over reprints and virutally none of the comprehensive local news subscribers expect.

Visit the links above to learn more about the employees' struggle for justice and fair treatment in their workplace.

For more info, contact:

Local 32035 Staff Rep:
Calvin Zon
Local Representative
Work phone: 202-785-3650, x17
e-mail: czon@wbng.org

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