The News Media Guild, formerly known as the Wire Service Guild, is
Local union
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31222 of
The NewsGuild, which is a sector of the
Communications Workers of America
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.
Most of its members are employees of the
Associated Press
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, where the union represents reporters, editors, photographers, broadcast staff, payroll clerks and computer technicians. It also represents employees of
United Press International
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and the
EFE news agency in the United States.
Staffers at
The Guardian US joined the News Media Guild in 2015. US-based staff of British financial publisher Pageant Media joined the News Media Guild in 2020. Staff of civic tech nonprofit Democracy Works and US-based staff of
Oxford University Press
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joined the News Media Guild in 2021.
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)
which held that the
First Amendment
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did not give media employers immunity from labor laws. That case involved an editorial worker who edited and rewrote news copy.
See also
*
List of NewsGuild-CWA Locals
The NewsGuild-CWA is composed of 46 U.S. locals and 17 Canadian locals, based largely on geography. Some locals represent the staff of a single publication, organization or company, while others represent the employees of multiple workplaces, wit ...
References
External links
News Media Guild
Trade unions in the United States
Communications Workers of America
Trade unions established in 1958
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