Anti-Labor Union Buster & Censor Hearst III Joins Center For Investigative Reporting Board

Anti-Labor Union Buster And Censor Joins Center For Investigative Reporting Board
Hearst chairman William R. Hearst III joins Center for Investigative Reporting board
http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Hearst-chairman-joins-Center-for-Investigative-9966781.php
October 12, 2016 Updated: October 12, 2016 10:14am

Photo: Hearst Corp.William R. Hearst III, chairman of the Hearst media company that owns The Chronicle, is joining the board of the Center for Investigative Reporting.
William R. Hearst III has joined the board of the Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit journalism organization.

Hearst is chairman of the Hearst media company, which owns The Chronicle, and has been involved with the charitable activities and programs of the Hearst Foundations for the last 20 years. He also serves on the boards of the Carnegie Institution for Science, the San Francisco Film Society and other organizations.


Hearst, the grandson of William Randolph Hearst, cited the importance of supporting investigative journalism such as that done by the center. “A free society needs a free press, but also a fearless press,” he said in a statement.

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Is Hearst’s Anti-Union History Repeating At WMUR?
http://nhlabornews.com/2015/12/is-hearsts-anti-union-history-repeating-at-wmur/
By NH Labor News | December 18, 2015 | Featured, Labor, Union
What’s the Agenda Behind the News and Entertainment You Watch?
Hearst Corporation is one of the largest media corporations in the world. It has ownership interests in 360 different businesses, including cable networks A&E and ESPN; 30 television stations that reach one in five American households; dozens of magazines; and even digital outlets such as BuzzFeed (which reaches 190 million unique visitors around the world each month). Hearst Television is “the largest ABC affiliate group” and “the second-largest NBC affiliate owner” – and it even owns two CBS-affiliated stations. When you stop and look, Hearst seems to be pretty much everywhere.

Hearst also has one of the longest histories of opposing labor unions, starting with the Newsboys Strike of 1899. In 1944, Hearst Publications went all the way to the Supreme Court trying to keep its employees from forming a union.

And it looks like Hearst is still fighting unionization today. A group of 20 WMUR employees voted to form a union last April – and it’s now December, and Hearst management still doesn’t want to negotiate with the union about workers’ retirement benefits.

Even after receiving letters from presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Even after being contacted by Martin O’Malley’s campaign. Even after the Democratic National Committee and the New Hampshire Democratic Party removed WMUR as a sponsor of the December 19th presidential candidates’ debate, citing “WMUR’s unwillingness to move forward on scheduling negotiations between the Hearst Corporation and Production Department employees represented by IBEW Local 1228.”

Workers have a right to join together in a union. Employers have the legal obligation to bargain – in good faith – with their employees’ union.

WMUR’s employees have decided to exercise their right to form a union. But it looks like WMUR management – following Hearst’s long history of fighting unions – is now refusing to allow those newly-unionized workers to keep their retirement plan.

Do you wonder if the anti-union agenda might be finding its way into the news and entertainment you watch?

Last year, Hearst Corporation “achieved record revenue and profit for the fourth straight year” – logging $10.3 billionin sales with profits benefitting the Hearst Family Trust. CEO Steven Swartz even sent out a “Thank you” lettercelebrating employees’ “hard work and creativity.”

But that fourth-year-in-a-row CEO “Thank you!” is probably sounding pretty hollow to those 20 WMUR employees faced with losing their retirement plan.

Please sign this petition to tell CEO Swartz and the Hearst Family Trust to end their campaign against unions, and to negotiate fairly with the employees who helped the corporation make record-breaking profits.

Tell HEARST Media and WMUR to Stop Punishing Workers for Joining a Union
Target: HEARST CEO Steven Swartz and the Hearst Family Trust