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About the Guild |
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LEEWATCH.org The Guild’s Eye on Lee Enterprises |
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A Forum for Lee Employees—Sponsored by the St. Louis Newspaper Guild, AFL-CIO, CLC |
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Founded as a union for print journalists, the Guild today is primarily a media union whose members are diverse in their occupations, but who share the view that the best working conditions are achieved by people who have a say in their workplace.
We have more than 34,000 members in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico, and we are journalists, sales and media workers of all kinds. We are on-line writers and designers, reporters, editorial assistants, photographers, editors, paginators, editorial artists, correspondents, typographers, advertising sales people, marketing and information systems service reps, drivers, maintenance, mail room, pressroom, telephone operators, circulation and distribution staff.
Just as media has many components, so does The Newspaper Guild: wire services, newspapers, magazines, labor information services, broadcast news, public service and dot com companies.
Our mission is to improve wages, benefits and working conditions to ensure fair treatment and promote equal opportunity.
In 1997 the Newspaper Guild merged with the Communications Workers of America, a 700,000 member strong labor union with a presence in the telecommunications industry and elsewhere. The Guild maintains its independence as a sector with the CWA. The Newspaper Guild, along with the Communications Workers of America, is part of the AFL-CIO.
Lee Watch is a project of the St. Louis Newspaper Guild, which represents some 600 employees at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, KSDK-TV, The St. Louis Labor Tribune, Unicom and the St. Louis Review. |