Category: Labor

History · Labor

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Heywood Broun: The Column That Launched the Newspaper Guild

  • April 30, 2013

This column by Heywood Broun launched the Newspaper Guild. It was published in the New York World-Telegram on August 7, 1933, as well as in several other Scripps-Howard dailies. In the midst of the Great Depression, the unorganized white- and pink-collar employees of the newspaper industry were having their wages slashed, their hours increased and were being fired in great numbers — all in the name of economy.

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Los Links | Unions: The End is Nigh

  • January 25, 2013

In case you missed it, unions are in their death throes. The Bureau of Labor Statistics released a report showing in 2012 union membership declined by 400,000 to 14.3 million workers, or 11.3 percent of the workforce, down from 11.8 percent in 2011.

Labor · Local

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Reduction In Dues To Be Voted Upon

  • August 30, 2012

IN THE AUGUST Denver Newspaper Guild Representative Council meeting, delegates decided to propose a reduction in union dues if contracts with expanded union shop requirements are ratified by the non-newsroom…

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A Race To The Bottom

  • July 2, 2012

Although it is true that only about 20 percent of American workers are in unions, that 20 percent sets the standards across the board in salaries, benefits and working conditions….

  • Who We Are

    Newspapers are the voice of the community. We are the voice of newspaper employees | The Denver Newspaper Guild Local 37074 is a union of Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska and Montana newspaper employees, and employees working for unions and nonprofit organizations in the state.