St. Paul Guild

      Welcome to the internet home of the Newspaper Guild unit representing union workers at Minnesota's oldest daily newspaper.

   There are about 380 of us now working for MediaNews, a privately held newspaper company that acquired the paper and three other Knight Ridder publications from the McClatchy Company, after McClatchy bought its San Jose-based rival and broke it up.

   We are one of seven Guild newspaper units in Minnesota, including our colleagues and rivals at the Minneapolis-based Star Tribune. In St. Paul, we are currently working under a contract that dates to 2002 and expires in 2007. There are many fewer of us now than when we negotiated that contract, after a round of buyouts and layoffs in late 2006 and January 2007.

   It's a tough business and getting tougher every day.

   Read here about our work to keep the Pioneer Press an asset to the community, an independent voice and a provider of good jobs in our region.

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