Graphics Communications Member

News Updates

Press Release
February 26 -

The Teamsters’ Graphic Communications Conference (GCC) filed an unfair labor practice charge against the owner of the San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper this week, detailing how Teamster members were threatened and photographed while handing out leaflets in front of the Beverly Hills headquarters of the firm, Platinum Equity. 

Headline News
February 8 -

Newsday union leaders will meet with management Tuesday afternoon to examine the paper's financial status in preparation for talks aimed at procuring fair terms for the workers who report, photograph, edit, produce and deliver the Long Island paper every day.

Headline News
January 6 -

GCC members at the San Diego Union-Tribune need your support! Workers have already been forced to take a 12 percent pay cut and an additional 4 percent in other monetary items throughout the collective bargaining agreement, plus the company wants to increase outsourcing. 

Headline News
January 6 -

Two years ago December, a federal administrative law judge ruled the Santa Barbara News-Press illegally fired eight reporters for union organizing and ordered their immediate reinstatement but political wrangling in Washington, D.C. has kept the journalists from winning back their jobs.

Headline News
June 22 -

The Teamsters union that represents drivers at the Star Tribune ratified a new agreement with the company on Wednesday, moving the newspaper's owners one step closer to emerging from bankruptcy.

Headline News
May 22 -

A Rochester man is returning to work eight months after the company he worked for 17 years fired him.

Headline News
May 20 -

On May 12, 2009, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company announced an interest in acquiring all or substantially all of the assets and properties of Quebecor World Inc., currently in bankruptcy court reorganization proceedings, from Quebecor World’s debtors for about US$1.4 billion in cash and stock. This is the official statement from UNI, a global partner of the Graphic Communications Conference, on R.R. Donnelly's proposal.

Headline News
April 27 -

Byron Austin has been fielding plenty of questions about the Employee Free Choice Act — and getting a “very encouraging” level of interest from people interested in organizing.

Headline News
April 15 -

A Santa Barbara Superior Court ruling today, April 8, cleared the way for illegally fired News-Press reporter Dawn Hobbs to seek an estimated $200,000 or more in unpaid overtime, penalties, interest, and attorney fees.

Headline News
April 2 -

The Santa Barbara News-Press may not have much of a newsroom staff left, but it is certainly keeping plenty of lawyers working overtime from here to Washington, D.C. The paper just got hit with a dozen or so new charges by the National Labor Relations Board.