History
The American Newspaper Guild was founded in this year during the height of the Great Depression.
1933
The Newspaper Guild (now The NewsGuild) merged with this much larger union in 1995.
Communications Workers of America
This three-word principle builds capacity and develops other leaders.
Learn, Do, Teach
The style of bargaining that showcases collective power through member attendance at sessions.
Open bargaining
The right to union representation during an investigatory meeting with management that could lead to discipline, enshrined by a 1975 Supreme Court case
Weingarten
This internal communication lets members know what happened in a recent bargaining session.
Shop paper
This person is primarily responsible for managing a local’s funds and assets.
Treasurer
He was the founding president of The American Newspaper Guild and wrote that he would help start a union at nine o’clock on the morning of October 1.
Heywood Broun
NewsGuild members live and work in these two countries and one territory.
U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico
More than 600 workers at this publishing house voted 78% to unionize with the Guild in July 2026.
Hachette Book Group
This term is used to refer to a legal allegation that the union or employer violated the National Labor Relations Act.
Unfair Labor Practice
This is a preferred ratio of stewards to members (or “stu’s”)
1:10
This is how you respond to the boss’ spin.
Don't!
This is the document governing the conduct of union matters, officers and members at the local level.
By-Laws
This newsroom won a news integrity clause in their 1963 contract and still has it today.
Kenosha News
This rank-and-file position is the highest ranking officer on The NewsGuild-CWA Executive Council.
Sector Chairperson
The second “stage of organizing” that proceeds workers going public.
Committee
The standard that the Guild demands, without exceptions, for warranting discipline.
Just cause
This is the person who makes a final and binding decision regarding the intent and application of the contract when the parties cannot agree.
Arbitrator
This word is the word that mission statements should start with.
To
This tool facilitates keeping meetings on track to cover all the issues and end on time.
Agenda
She was a striker at the Newark Ledger in 1934, later elected local president, was illegally fired and won reinstatement and backpay covering 4.5 years.
Agnes Fahy
This CWA sector represents flight attendants at United, Alaska, PSA and other airlines.
Association of Flight Attendants
The part of an organizing conversation where you and a coworker discuss what management’s strategy might be.
Inoculate
This term refers to bargaining proposals that address wages, benefits and conditions of employment
Mandatory subjects of bargaining
The obligation to represent and process the grievances of bargaining unit employees without regard to whether or not they are union members.
Duty of Fair Representation
This is the group of members who share information internally and externally for a unit
Communications Committee
Connecting this thing to our values offers a strategy to deal with burnout.
Goals
This Guild member wrote a column for the Toronto Star and later became Prime Minister, overseeing Parliament when Canada adopted its maple leaf flag.
Lester Pearson
The NewsGuild is part of two labor federations: the AFL-CIO and this federation founded in 1926 in Paris.
International Federation of Journalists
Workers can push management to offer this instead of forcing an election with the National Labor Relations Board.
Voluntary Recognition
The number of constitutionally required provisions that all Guild contracts must propose.
8 (union security, just cause, grievance and arbitration, wage minimums, jurisdiction, seniority, diversity, retirement)
This eight-letter acronym "helps" folks remember what a steward is.
W-O-C-E-P-S-U-R
A preferred platform used to send email and host petitions, letter-writing campaigns, events
Action Network
Some characteristics of this initiative include being assertive, specific, persistent and without qualification.
Hard ask