By Jackie Kawalski Before making the huge, costly mistake of consolidating newspapers, consider demographics. Joliet residents do not consider themselves suburbanites. Joliet is a city, not a suburb of Chicago and Jolietans are not Chicagoans. The Joliet Herald-News has been … Continue reading
The Sun-Times is now not only taking the position that it wants exclusive jurisdiction over Guild jobs, but are now actually moving Guild activists out of the bargaining unit. In a letter to the Company dated January 31, 2013, the … Continue reading
The January 25 negotiations with Sun-Times Media management was mostly geared towards the effects regarding the consolidation and relocation of staff to the Sun-Times main office in downtown Chicago. Management said the move of employees should be finished by March … Continue reading
The Dec. 20 negotiating session between the Guild and the Company in Skokie was brief, undertaken with the reverberations of the explosion Jim Kirk set off only minutes before our meeting still shaking the room. If we were shell-shocked by … Continue reading
CHICAGO HEADLINE CLUB – PROTECTING THE PUBLIC’S RIGHT TO KNOW We journalists are a tribe. And that’s why the Chicago Headline Club is holding its second Scribe Aid event. We’ll sing, take in some very good jazz and catch up. Most importantly, … Continue reading
The Chicago Newspaper Guild and the Chicago Sun-Times Media Group concluded the modified traditional bargaining phase this past Wednesday, November 28. The parties were able to reach a tentative agreement for all five bargaining units on outside activities and several … Continue reading
The Guild met with the Sun-Times Media Group on Thursday, November 8. The parties discussed the Guild’s interest in Pioneer Press becoming a union shop. The parties also reached a tentative agreement on a common grievance and arbitration procedure for … Continue reading
The Guild and Company would like to recap the state of negotiations up to this point. As you are aware the Guild and Company are in the process of modified traditional bargaining, in which the bargaining sessions are off the … Continue reading
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