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):
- Albany Times Union, N.Y. (Hearst)
- Minneapolis Star Tribune, Minn. (McClatchy)
- San Francisco Examiner, Calif. (Hearst)
- San Francisco Chronicle, Calif. (Chronicle Publishing)
- San Francisco Newspaper Association (J.O.A.)
- San Jose Mercury-News, Calif. (Knight-Ridder)
- St. Paul Pioneer Press, Saint Paul, Minn. (Knight-Ridder)
- The Village Voice, N.Y. (Stern)
Wire Service Guild Contracts with DP
Benefits:
- Reuters
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