The Human Rights and Equity Committee was formed at the TNG Sector Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada in July 2006 to increase diversity within the ranks of the The Newspaper Guild.

Mission Statement

The TNG -CWA Human Rights and Equity Committee will increase the participation of equity seeking groups at all levels of the union and in all leadership positions at the Local, National and International levels and as delegates to the District Councils, Representative Councils and the Sector Conferences.  It will strive to achieve a diversity of leadership to reflect our communities.

Goals And Objectives

• Outreach at the local, district and community levels

• Establish a mentoring program

• Survey the representation of members of equity seeking groups in the membership

• Establish a network

• Create literature to attract new activists and inform members of their rights

• Translate all literature into Spanish in the United States, French in Canada; and other languages on request

• Establish a web page and other internet communications

• Double the number of members of equity seeking groups at conventions

• Establish Human Rights programs at every District Council and Canadian Representative Council at least once a year

 
TNG-CWA Human Rights and Equity Committee

 

Carl Younger Chair   Carl Younger started at the Boston Globe Newspaper as a Copy-boy in 1971. Other jobs at the Globe include Wire Room attendant, Library Assistant, Library Associates, and Circulation outside sales. Studied Economics at U-Mass Boston and attended Harvard University extension program. Union rep 1998 through 2002. Executive board member 2002 through present. TNG-CWA New England region Human Rights and Equity Representative. Hobbies Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Pilipino Martial arts.

Vernon Clark is a journalist at the Philadelphia Inquirer where he has worked for more than two decades in a variety of positions, including assistant editorial page editor and copy editor.  Most recently Vernon has been a neighborhood reporter covering the north and northwest sections of Philadelphia.  He has received several honors for his reporting, including being named Journalist of the Year for 2005 by the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists for his coverage of youth violence. This summer he received the Essence of Fatherhood Award from the city’s Father’s Day Rally Committee, a local organization that honors the positive contributions of black men in the Philadelphia area. Before joining the Philadelphia Inquirer, he worked at the Boston Globe and the Akron Beacon Journal.   The son of a union activist, Vernon has been a member of the Newspaper Guild for many years, holding positions in Akron, and Philadelphia, where he is the chairman of the local Representative Assembly.  A graduate of Temple University, Vernon is married with two children. He is an avid freshwater fisherman and outdoorsman.

Yoko Kuramoto-Eidsmoe is president of the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild (TNG/CWA Local 37082).  She also serves on CWA’s National Committee on Equity and District 7’s Equity Committee. She has worked on the copy desks of The Seattle Times since 1997.  Before that, she worked at The News Tribune (Tacoma, WA) and The Statesman Journal (Salem, OR). She lives in Seattle with her husband, Craig Eidsmoe, and their three cats.

Randye Gilliam is the First Vice-Chairperson and Grievance Chairperson of the Standard & Poor’s Unit of the Newspaper Guild of New York and also serves on the Executive Committee of the New York local of The Newspaper Guild. In 2007, Randye was honored as one of three co-winners of the Newspaper Guild of New York Tom Keenan Service Award. Randye is a Sr. Copy Editor at Standard & Poor’s in New York City, and is a graduate of Cornell University. In addition to her guild commitments, Randye is active in her community and her church.

Tiffany Heath is a proud member of the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, Local 32035 of The Newspaper Guild-Communication Workers of America. Tiffany also serves as the Secretary for the Guild staff union of the AFL-CIO in Washington DC and is a member of the Executive Committee of Local 32035.  She is originally from Newark, New Jersey and is a loyal Detroit Tigers fan. Tiffany is the National Coalition Organizer for the Voice@Work campaign of the AFL-CIO.

Natalie Hill is the first vice-president of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh Local 38061 and serves as chair of its human rights committee. During the 2006 TNG Sector Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, the Great Lakes District Council nominated Natalie to serve as an alternate representative on the TNG-CWA Human Rights and Equity Committee. She was later appointed as a member of the committee. Natalie works as a news assistant/paginator in the business department of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Ka Yan Ng is a member of the Canadian Media Guild and president of the Thomson Reuters branch. Before that, she was vice-president of CMG's Reuters branch, which is made up of about 90 members from editorial, technical and administrative departments across Canada. Ka Yan also serves on the CMG National Executive and its management and education committees.   She is the first Canadian member of CWA Canada to attend the CWA's Minority Leadership Institute (Class of 2008), a program designed to increase the involvement of minorities and women at all levels of the union. Ka Yan is a reporter in Toronto.

Vincent Proteau is a member of the Canadian Media Guild and Secretary / Treasurer of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network branch.  Vincent also serves on the CMG Human Rights & Equity Committee, and is the Webmaster for the TNG-CWA Human Rights & Equity Committee.  Vincent is Métis, of Cree and French Ancestry, and works as an Audio Engineer and Graphics Designer in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Mathew Olson is a member of the Kenosha Newspaper Guild TNG-CWA Local 34159.  He has been a reporter at the Kenosha News in Kenosha, Wisconsin since August of 2005 and currently covers city politics.  Matthew is a graduate from Marquette University.  He has been a member of the Human Rights and Equity Committee since September of 2008.