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Pacific Media Workers Guild

Pacific Media Workers Guild

The Guild met with Chronicle representatives virtually on Wednesday for a second bargaining session on a new labor agreement. Find out what happened by reading this bulletin crafted by members of your bargaining committee.

Special thanks to unit chair Caroline Grannan for keeping us all informed.

02/01/2017

Guild Freelancers protests reporter’s expulsion from SFPD press conference

http://mediaworkers.org/guild-freelancers-protests-reporters-expulsion-from-sfpd-press-conference/

The expulsion of 48 Hills reporter Sana Saleem from a San Francisco Police Department press conference on Jan. 18 has prompted Guild Freelancers chair David Bacon to send a protest letter reminding…

09/06/2016

East Bay unions celebrate family and Labor in Alameda

Great Labor Day picnic with focus on families and gratitude.

East Bay unions know how to put on a great Labor Day picnic. Despite all the weighty issues facing us during the weirdest election season ever, the biggest controversy at Alameda Point Park on Mond…

07/28/2016

Chronicle Shopnotes

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We dedicate this edition of Shopnotes to the memory of our friend and colleague Jillian Sullivan, who brightened the newsroom every day.

07/07/2016

In the first joint bargaining session in Denver, the Guild and Digital First Media laid out ground rules and set parameters for negotiations...

http://mediaworkers.org/twelve-guild-units-bargain-with-dfm-in-denver-no-agreement-yet/

07/06/2016

You Got a Raise!

Guild members - hundreds more dollars are making it to your wallets beginning July 1. Why?
Read below to find out more!

Because of your hard work with the Guild during the last round of bargaining, San Francisco Chronicle unit members are getting 1.5% raises effective July 1st. Be sure to check your pay stubs. Some sample raises:

06/20/2016

Chronicle shopnotes

Chronicle Shopnotes for June with special appearance by Jack Breibart, former news editor...

It only took 9 years for Hamed Aleaziz to get around to proposing to his high school sweetheart Erica Valdovinos, who wasn’t really his high school sweetheart because it took Hamed all three …

06/02/2016

Alden Global’s friends in high places

And the fish smell is not coming from the newspapers...

A mysterious announcement made the rounds among business writers Tuesday. A company called Twenty Lake Holdings LLC had just acquired the buildings, printing presses and other real estate holdings …

05/06/2016

Guild declares national day of action in campaign

Today is the day! Show your solidarity...

One thousand NewsGuild workers at 13 newspapers nationwide stand united today as we begin a new, more public phase of the Guild’s campaign for fair contracts with Digital First Media.…

03/16/2016

Chronicle Shopnotes 2.0

Levity and leavening at the SF Chronicle: Shopnotes

We hear that part of the deal that wooed the inimitable Jaxon Van Derbeken off to TV-land was an honest-to-God personal wardrobe budget, a New York fashion makeover and free tuition to TV charm sc…

02/24/2016

Chronicle Shopnotes, 21st century version

http://mediaworkers.org/chronicle-shopnotes-21st-century-version/

They’re back! Send scoops and all the gossip that’s fit to print to [email protected], call or text to 415/412-5758, or find Curiouser and Curiouser in the newsroom.

07/22/2015

Timeline Photos

07/21/2015

Newsonomics: When news companies are no longer built to last

What not to do...

Newspapers were, for decades, a prime example of a community institution, meant to last through the centuries. A new generation of owners is thinking of them more as something to milk for profit on their way down.

06/09/2015

Our Local's Sara Steffens elected Sec-Treas of CWA

My friend, Sara Steffens (journalist) just got elected to the number two post in all of CWA - a 700,000 member union. Way to go, Sara and also congratulations to Mike Kepka, her superlative partner and husband (and also the creator of City Exposed/SF Chronicle).

By Phil Molnar DETROIT -- Former Bay Area newspaper reporter Sara Steffens was elected secretary-treasurer Monday of the Communications Workers of America, second in command at one of the biggest l...

04/30/2015

Come out, celebrate International Workers Day and see the work of our Guild members:

EYES ON THE MOVEMENT
Images from Bay Area and Los Angeles Activist Photographers

Silicon Valley De-Bug's Class Conscious Photographers and Studio Grand present images powered by working class people and captured by photographers participants in their struggles.

MAY DAY - Friday, May 1, 2015
6:30 - 9:30 PM
Studio Grand
3234 Grand Avenue, Oakland

Photographers:

Brooke Anderson, David Bacon, Jenny Cain, Charisse Domingo, Elizabeth Gonzalez, Isabel Gonzalez, Najib Joe Hakim, Jean Leasiolagi, Abraham Menor, Antonio Nava, Karen Ng, Ronald Orlando, Leopoldo Peña, Daniel Zapien

Photography, Music, Cultural Performances
Special digital slideshow photo exhibit on the May Day Marches

Generously supported by the Diane MIddleton Foundation and the Akonadi Foundation's Beloved Community Fund.

04/22/2015

Board of Supervisors : Sunshine Ordinance

SF sunshine panel journalist's seat open

A journalist's seat on San Francisco's Sunshine Ordinance Task Force is vacant. The task force is an 11-member policy body that monitors how well or poorly city personnel, boards, commissions, departments etc. comply with local and state open-meeting and public-records laws.

The opening is for Seat #2, which is reserved for a journalist nominated by the Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California chapter. The complete criteria for serving on the task force are set forth in Sunshine Ordinance Sec. 67.30(a). The text of the ordinance is accessible via the task force's website, http://sfgov.org/sunshine.

Service on the task force typically involves 15 to 20 hours a month, including meetings and pre-meeting preparation. The task force normally meets the first Wednesday each month and its committees usually meet during the third week of each month. Meetings usually start at 4 p.m. Members receive no pay or expense reimbursement but are eligible for the wonderfully inexpensive health coverage offered to city personnel.

Anyone interested in serving should contact Tom Peele, co-chair of SPJ NorCal's Freedom of Information Committee, at [email protected].

Anyone wanting additional information is encouraged to contact Richard Knee, the PMWG's California vice president and a former task force member, at [email protected]. Please spread the word on this.

The Sunshine Ordinance Task Force was established by Chapter 67 of the San Francisco Administrative Code. The purpose of the Task Force is to protect the public's interest in open government and to carry out the duties enumerated in Chapter 67 of the San Francisco Administrative Code.