Newspaper Guild, members donate $5160 to Sandy relief – and counting

[Omaha Steve]

http://broadcastunionnews.blogspot.com/2012/12/newspaper-guild-members-donate-5160-to.html

Guild members and the Guild have raised a combined $5160 so far to help CWA members (including Guild members) whose homes and property were lost or damaged by Hurricane Sandy.

And we’re not done yet.

At its December meeting, the Guild’s Executive Committee voted to forego the Local’s annual holiday party and instead donate the money that normally would have been spent on it ($2500 to $5000) to a fund set up by the Communications Workers of America (our parent union) to help tri-state area members who were hit by the storm. The Executive Committee approved a donation to the fund of $2500 and up to $2500 more that would match donations from members.

So far, members have donated $1330, which the Guild has matched with another $1330, in addition to its initial contribution of $2500. That’s a total of $5160.

The Guild is ready to match another $1170 in donations from members.

FULL story at link.