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Unions in the Media Industry with Contracts for Gender-Neutral Domestic Partner Benefits
(as of September 1999)


The percent enrolled is a percentage of total employees. This is an incomplete list.

 

NEWSPAPER GUILD/WIRE SERVICES GUILD, (part of CWA -- Communications Workers of America). Offered to employees of the union as of 1998. All eligible. Total employees: approximately 500.

The Newspaper Guild obtained the first DP benefits for workers in the nation in a 1982 contract with The Village Voice, New York.

Newspaper Guild Contracts with DP Benefits (incomplete list):

  1. Albany Times Union, N.Y. (Hearst)
  2. Minneapolis Star Tribune, Minn. (McClatchy)
  3. San Francisco Examiner, Calif. (Hearst)
  4. San Francisco Chronicle, Calif. (Chronicle Publishing)
  5. San Francisco Newspaper Association (J.O.A.)
  6. San Jose Mercury-News, Calif. (Knight-Ridder)
  7. St. Paul Pioneer Press, Saint Paul, Minn. (Knight-Ridder)
  8. The Village Voice, N.Y. (Stern)

 

Wire Service Guild Contracts with DP Benefits:

  1. Reuters


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