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2 scholarships available to Guild members

Posted on Jan 23, 2015 Last Updated Jan 23, 2015 Posted by Martha Waggoner

All Guild members and their families are eligible to apply for two college scholarships.

The Communications Workers of America, the Guild’s parent union, offers one while the AFL-CIO’s Union Plus program sponsors the other.
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The deadline for a Union Plus Scholarship is Jan. 31, so time is short. The program grants one-time cash awards of $500 to $4,000 to eligible undergraduate and graduate students at U.S. learning institutions for the 2015-2016 school year. Continuous union membership of at least one full year as of May 31, 2015 is required. For details and an online application, click here.

The CWA’s Joe Beirne Foundation Scholarship program is offering 15 partial college scholarships of $3,000 each for undergraduate and graduate students in the 2015-2016 school year. Winners also get second-year scholarships upon satisfactory academic accomplishment. The application deadline is April 30. For more information and an online application form, click here.

Brett Zongker interviewed about his video with Bill Cosby

Posted on Dec 05, 2014 Last Updated Dec 05, 2014 Posted by Martha Waggoner

Associated Press reporter and Guild member Brett Zongker has found himself on the other side of the camera after the AP released the full video of his interview with Bill Cosby.

The AP released the full video about two weeks after Zongker interviewed Cosby and his wife, Camille, about their African-American art collection, some of which they had loaned to the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art.
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During the on-camera exchange Zongker asked Cosby about the allegations and he replies, “No, no. We don’t answer that.”

Cosby then requested that none of the questions and answers about the allegations appear anywhere. “I would appreciate it if it was scuttled,” Cosby said.

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El Paso correspondent, Guild member Juan Carlos Llorca dies at age 40

Posted on Nov 30, 2014 Last Updated Nov 30, 2014 Posted by Martha Waggoner

El Paso correspondent and News Media Guild member Juan Carlos Llorca, whose reporting on illegal international adoptions led to national reforms in Guatemala, has died at age 40.

Llorca collapsed at his home Monday in El Paso, Texas, and was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, his sister said. The cause of his death is pending.

AP El Paso correspondent Juan Carlos Llorca smiles during a press conference in Guatemala City. Llorca died Nov. 24, 2014. (AP Photo by Moises Castillo)

AP El Paso correspondent Juan Carlos Llorca smiles during a press conference in Guatemala City. Llorca died Nov. 24, 2014. (AP Photo by Moises Castillo)


Llorca spent years reporting on illegal international adoptions in Guatemala, becoming one of the first journalists to uncover a smuggling trade in which infants were placed for adoption with unsuspecting couples, mostly from the United States.

Llorca became AP's correspondent in El Paso, Texas, in 2011. In addition to covering Mexico's drug war and the border town of Ciudad Juarez, Llorca also learned photography.

Llorca had two teenage sons who had recently joined him in El Paso to attend school.

Your union-made in America Thanksgiving shopping list

Posted on Nov 24, 2014 Last Updated Nov 24, 2014 Posted by Martha Waggoner

Before you put together your Thanksgiving dinner shopping list, check our list of union-made in America food and other items that are essential to a traditional family Thanksgiving feast. Speaking of thanks, a big “thank you” to the Union Label and Service Trades Department (ULSTD), Union Plus and the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor's resource site, Labor 411, for compiling their extensive catalogs of union-made products.
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Here are some of the best union-made Thanksgiving eats and cookware from the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM); Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics and Allied Workers (GMP); Machinists (IAM); United Steelworkers (USW); and United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW).

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Pay raises of 2 percent included in most recent checks

Posted on Nov 23, 2014 Last Updated Nov 23, 2014 Posted by Martha Waggoner

Your paychecks for the pay period ending Nov. 21 should include the Guild-negotiated pay raise of 2 percent, retroactive to Sept. 25 when the tentative agreement was reached.
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A single dip of 2 percent, the amount of the negotiated pay raise for one week’s pay, also was deducted from checks in this pay period as allowed under Article 14, section 1 of the News Media Guild bylaws.

Guild-covered staffers will get two more pay raises during this three-year contract: 1.75 percent effective Nov. 15, 2015; and 1.5 percent effective Jan. 1, 2017. You’ll also get a lump sum payment of $500 on March 1, 2015; $300 on June 1, 2016; and $300 on Sept. 1, 2017.

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