The Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild/CWA Today
The
Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild Local 82 was born on May 12,
1936, three years after New York columnist Heywood Broun founded
the American Newspaper Guild to represent print journalists in
the newspaper industry.
Today,
The Newspaper Guild has more than 32,000 members throughout the
information industry in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico
and is a sector of the 650,000-member Communications Workers of
America.
Local
82 has grown and changed as well, expanding from its Seattle newspaper
roots to embrace a growing community of information industry workers
throughout the greater Puget Sound area and beyond. TNG and PNNG/CWA
still represent newspaper reporters, the core of Broun's new union,
but we also represent on-line writers and designers, photographers,
editorial assistants, advertising salespersons, clerical workers,
marketing, information systems specialists, commercial artists,
technicians, accountants, drivers, maintenance, mail room, pressroom,
telephone operators and circulation. We also represent workers
in the wire services, newspapers, magazines, labor information
services, labor unions, broadcast news and public agencies. We
are also interpreters and translators.
We
are as diverse as the communities we serve - leading the battles
in the information industry, the trade union movement and society
for equality and diversity. Our members are of every race, creed,
color, national origin, age and sexual orientation and we are
committed that our workplaces be free of discrimination based
on any of those qualities.
We
are democratic. Our Constitution and Local bylaws establish that
membership is the final ruling body of our locals and of the international
union, and provides for active participation by and fair representation
of all members in all union matters.
We
are also committed to the betterment of society through the delivery
of fair, accurate and complete information to the citizenry.
Internationally, TNG represents workers in
several hundred news and information outlets. In the Pacific
Northwest, Local 37082, which merged with the International
Typographical Union/CWA Local in 1997, has 1,200 members
in 18 separate units in newspapers, print shops and trade
unions throughout the area.
They include The Seattle Times (two
units), The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Everett
Herald, the Kitsap Sun (two units), the Yakima
Herald-Republic, the Skagit Valley Herald, the
Daily Journal of Commerce and the Longview Daily
News. They also include Altig International in Redmond,
Pacific Business and R-4 Printing, both in Tacoma, the State
Department of Printing in Olympia, Renton Printery, Trade
Printery in Seattle, and Aero Mechanic.
More information on the
Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild/CWA Local 37082 may be
obtained e-mailing us at info@pnwguild.org,
calling us at 206-328-1190 or writing us at 2900 Eastlake
Avenue E, Suite 220, Seattle, WA 98102.
