NewsGuild-CWA Archives - nwLaborPress

Longview newspaper ratifies first union contract

May 18, 2022

Hammered out in 10 months, the union’s first contract with newspaper owner Lee Enterprises will be up in a year.

The Daily News offers 13¢ raise

Feb 16, 2022

The Longview newsroom joined the NewsGuild last May. But bargaining with Lee Enterprises—which owns 77 newspapers—isn’t going well.

NewsGuild walks away from The Columbian

Sep 20, 2021

The union that Vancouver’s daily newspaper journalists cheerfully announced in 2019 is no more.

Vancouver’s daily newspaper moves to get rid of its union

Sep 1, 2021

After 21 months of supposed negotiations, The Columbian is asking the National Labor Relations Board to hold a new union election.

Longview news reporters go union

May 19, 2021

Newsroom staff at The Daily News in Longview, Washington voted 6-0 to unionize with the NewsGuild in mail ballots counted May 14.

Union logos get a little love

Apr 5, 2021

A new Twitter account dedicated to sharing union logos has quickly developed a fan base in the union Twitter world.

Wave of unionization sweeps through Washington newspapers

Mar 31, 2021

Five Washington newspapers have unionized recently, the latest in a nationwide surge among print and online journalists under way since 2015.

Journalists at The Columbian newspaper in Vancouver vote overwhelmingly to unionize

Oct 31, 2019

The union vote comes as part of an extraordinary wave of unionization in print and online media.

Union vote scheduled at The Columbian newspaper

Oct 16, 2019

Management at the family-owned paper isn’t mounting the kind of scorched-earth anti-union campaign that some employers use, but is making it clear they hope employees will vote no.

Journalists unionize at Vancouver newspaper The Columbian

Sep 30, 2019

They love the work they do, and want a union so they can make The Columbian a place they can continue to work.