It's springtime, and the Graphic Communications Conference of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters wants you to know that you do have a choice on Easter. Many Easter cards are made in the USA, and some are not.
More than 50 Teamsters rallied outside The Inquirer office building Tuesday, protesting the conduct of management of the newspaper's parent company as its ownership group mulls a possible sale.
Five years after Santa Barbara News-Press owner Wendy McCaw was accused of improperly meddling in the newspaper's coverage and firing employees after they began to unionize, the National Labor Relations Board ruled in favor of the journalists, saying they were the victims of an "extensive campaign of retaliatory conduct" by the publisher.
A federal board has ruled the Santa Barbara News-Press committed unfair labor practices during a union-organizing campaign and it ordered the newspaper's publisher to reinstate eight fired journalists.
(WASHINGTON) – Reporters at the Santa Barbara News-Press have won reinstatement to their jobs and back pay after a National Labor Relations Board decision.
Former Santa Barbara News-Press employees and supporters of workers’ rights held a rally Thursday in De la Guerra Plaza to mark the five-year anniversary of the paper’s controversial resignations and firings in 2006.
About 75 people gathered at De la Guerra Plaza on Thursday, in an event roughly timed with the 5-year anniversary of a mass exodus of reporters and editors from the Santa Barbara News-Press.
(WASHINGTON) – A majority of bindery workers, drivers and quality assurance workers at Craftsman Press, a printing facility in Cheverly, Md., voted to become Teamsters on Saturday as well as voting in a two-year contract.
(WASHINGTON) – A majority of the 400 employees working at a Vertis Communications’ print and mail production facility in Chalfont, Pa., has voted to become members of the Teamsters Union.
Handing a major victory to eight fired reporters at the Santa Barbara News-Press, a federal judge ruled that Wendy McCaw, the paper’s multi-millionaire owner and co-publisher, repeatedly and flagrantly broke the law to try and keep the Teamsters out of her newsroom.
The Teamsters Newspaper, Magazine and Electronic Media Workers Conference represents deliverers and other crafts in the publishing industry in the United States and Canada.
