Minnesota Newspaper and Communications Guild

TNG-CWA Local 37002 – Proudly serving the Twin Cities since 1933

Minnesota AFL-CIO

The Minnesota AFL-CIO is the state federation of labor representing over 300,000 members in more than 1,000 local unions throughout Minnesota.

2016 ILCA Labor Media Awards Winners

October 26, 2017 at 12:00 pm

Congratulations to Michael Moore, Steve Share and Chris Shields, members of our Local who are among those being honored by the International Labor Communications Association for their outstanding work. Full list of awards available on the ILCA website.

St. Paul Regional Labor Federation
3rd Place: Visual Communications Awards: Best Front Page/Cover: Newspapers: State/Local
St. Paul Union Advocate, April 2015
By Michael Moore

3rd Place: Visual Communications Awards: Best Photograph: State/Local
Getting an Earful
By Michael Moore

3rd Place: Writing: Saul Miller Awards: Organizing: State/Local
Taking Back What They Lost
By Michael Moore

Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation
3rd Place: Visual Communications: Best Photo Essay or Gallery: State/Local
Vikings Stadium Safety Walk, June 17, 2015
By Steve Share

Minnesota AFL-CIO
2nd Place: Electronic Media: Best Longform Audio: State/Local
Minnesota Works Podcast: Safe Staffing on Workers Memorial Day
By Chris Shields

Minneapolis Labor Review

August 20, 2013 at 3:16 am

The Labor Review, founded in 1907, is the official publication of the Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, the umbrella organization for 121 affiliated local unions in the West Metro of the Twin Cities. Labor Review Editor Steve Share can be reached here.

Minneapolis Labor Review contacts

August 16, 2013 at 2:05 pm

Minneapolis Labor Review contact is:

Steve Share

TNG-CWA Local 37002 – Proudly serving the Twin Cities since 1933

Our units

Duluth News Tribune Unit

The Lake Superior unit of the Guild represents more than 70 employees at the Duluth News Tribune, and was formed in 1934 as the eighth local to join our national union. In 2016, the Lake Superior Newspaper Guild and the Minnesota Newspaper and Communications Guild voted to merge into one Guild Local.

TakeAction Minnesota

TakeAction Minnesota is a statewide people’s network of individual and organizational members working collaboratively to raise the voices of Minnesotans in their own communities to advance social, racial and economic justice. The organization has offices in St. Paul, Duluth and Grand Rapids.

Clean Water Action

Clean Water Action is a national environmental advocacy organization formed in 1972 that has been instrumental in major national and state legislation, including the Clean Water Act, and which continues to fight to protect the environment.

HCMC Interpreters

Hennepin County Medical Center is a 442-bed hospital and Level I trauma center in downtown Minneapolis that serves the West Metro of the Twin Cities. The Guild represents more than 100 Interpreters at HCMC and its outlying clinics.

Pioneer Press

The St. Paul Pioneer Press is a descendant of Minnesota’s first newspaper, the Pioneer, and is the major news outlet in the East Metro of the Twin Cities. The Guild has represented Pioneer Press employees since the 1930s and has about 230 members in the advertising, circulation, editorial and maintenance departments, as well as three remaining members in a CWA Print Sector unit.

Star Tribune

The Minneapolis Star Tribune is the largest media outlet in Minnesota and traces its lineage to several separate newspapers dating to 1867. The Guild represents about 250 Star Tribune employees in the editorial, circulation and marketing and promotions departments, as well as one remaining member in a CWA Print Sector unit.

Minnesota AFL-CIO

The Minnesota AFL-CIO is the state federation of labor representing over 300,000 members in more than 1,000 local unions throughout Minnesota.

RLM Arts

RLM Arts, whose motto is “Art for Social Justice,” is the Minneapolis art studio operated by artist/activist Ricardo Levins Morales.

Wellred USA

Wellred is a Minneapolis-based publisher of left-leaning literature and is striving to be the largest publisher of Marxist literature in North America.

Metro Area Sheet Metal Workers Local 10 Training Center

The Sheet Metal Workers Training Center in White Bear Lake is the central training location for the 5,000-plus members of Local 10 and one of the best facilities of its kind in the sheet metal industry.

Duluth Labor World

Labor World is the oldest of Minnesota’s three labor newspapers and one of the oldest labor newspapers in the country.

Minneapolis Labor Review

The Labor Review, founded in 1907, is the official publication of the Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation.

St. Paul Union Advocate

The Union Advocate is the official publication of the St. Paul Regional Labor Federation.

Print sector units

Minnesota Newspaper and Communications Guild
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