News Media Guild

The News Media Guild, formerly known as the Wire Service Guild, is Local union 31222 of The NewsGuild, which is a sector of the Communications Workers of America.

News Media Guild
News Media Guild, local 31222
Founded1958
HeadquartersNew York City
Location
Key people
Vin A. Cherwoo, president
Kevin Keane, administrator
Parent organization
The NewsGuild
Websitewww.newsmediaguild.org

Most of its members are employees of the Associated Press, where the union represents reporters, editors, photographers, broadcast staff, payroll clerks and computer technicians. It also represents employees of United Press International and the EFE news agency in the United States.

Staffers at The Guardian US joined the News Media Guild in 2015.[1] US-based staff of British financial publisher Pageant Media joined the News Media Guild in 2020.[2] Staff of civic tech nonprofit Democracy Works and US-based staff of Oxford University Press joined the News Media Guild in 2021.[3][4]

History

The national local was founded in 1958, but its roots extend back to the 1940s. Organizing workers at AP was the subject of a case before the U.S. Supreme Court in Associated Press v. Labor Board, 301 U.S. 103 (1937)[5] which held that the First Amendment did not give media employers immunity from labor laws. That case involved an editorial worker who edited and rewrote news copy.

See also

References
  1. Waggoner |, M. (2015, July 29). Guardian US staff votes 45-0 to join News Media Guild. News Media Guild. http://www.newsmediaguild.org/guardian-us-staff-votes-to-join-news-media-guild/
  2. Guild, News Media (2020-06-16). "Pageant Media Staff Wins Union Vote, joins NMG". News Media Guild. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
  3. https://newsguild.org/staff-at-democracy-works-unionize-with-the-newsguild/
  4. https://newsguild.org/oxford-u-press-staffers-vote-to-become-the-first-major-publishing-house-to-join-newsguild/
  5. "Associated Press v. Labor Board, 301 U.S. 103 (1937)". Justia Law. Retrieved 2020-12-23.


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