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29 March 2005
Annual Guild award recognizes excellence
in Local leadership
The Newspaper
Guild — Communications Workers of America
TNG Canada members are encouraged to seek
recognition for a volunteer among their ranks who provides
outstanding service to his or her Local.
The annual Guild Service Award is open to members who serve
in an unpaid capacity as Local officers or in other positions
such as steward, unit officer or committee member. The candidate
must be sponsored by his or her Local and nominated by the
Local executive, representative assembly or a general membership
meeting.
Nominations must be
received at the
headquarters of The Newspaper Guild by
April 22 in order
to be judged by the TNG-CWA Executive Council. The winner
receives a scholarship of up to US$2,000 for a course in
trade union education "appropriate
to the winner."
Recent winners have attended residential
courses lasting a week at the AFL-CIO's George Meany Labor
Studies Center in Silver Spring, Maryland, but arrangements
can be made for the winner to attend other appropriate
labour-education courses in his or her area. The scholarship
covers the cost of instruction, room, meals, lost time,
etc.
Because its purpose is to recognize
and develop Local leadership, the importance attached to
the award by the Guild is second to no other. TNG-CWA's Sector Executive Council has
urged every Local, especially the smaller ones, to give serious
consideration to nominating someone "in order to make
the contest a meaningful competition among deserving Local
leaders."
Judges will be selected from among TNG-CWA vice-presidents.
Note that nominations must include or be accompanied by
a detailed description of the achievements and qualifications
of the candidate. Please review the rules as set out in the
document below. In the past, some Locals have ignored eligibility
requirements or neglected to provide information, with the
result that judges had insufficient data on which to evaluate
the candidate.
Download: (Microsoft Word
file)
Deadline: Friday, April 22, 2005
Mail nominations to:
Guild Service Award
The Newspaper Guild/CWA
501 Third St. N.W., 6th Floor
Washington DC 20001
Email nominations to:
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