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Thursday, May 24, 2012

Newspaper Guild to rally in Canton.

Bernie Lunzer, president of the Newspaper Guild-CWA,  will be the featured speaker at a rally at 4:30 p.m. today at the South Plaza in downtown Canton to support Northeast Ohio guild members at the Repository newspaper.

The rally is among other activities today by guild locals at newspapers from Peoria, Ill., to Ohio and other properties owned by Fairport, N.Y.-based GateHouse Media. GateHouse, the Repository’s owner since 2006, holds its shareholders meeting today at its corporate headquarters.

The Northeast Ohio Newspaper Guild-CWA, Local 1, and the Repository are in contract negotiations. Local 1 also represents newsroom employees at the  Beacon Journal and at the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

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