Identity area
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Description area
Dates of existence
History
The Toronto Newspaper Guild was started by a small group of Toronto newsroom workers in 1937 with the daunting task of organizing the newsrooms of the four Toronto dailies then publishing. Its first decade was largely a story of failure. Although it nearly died, it was resurrected in 1948 and was able to demonstrate majority support in the newsroom. The Guild's first contract in Toronto was signed in April 1949, containing the milestone pay rate of $75 a week for reporters with four years of experience. The late 1960s and the 1970s were a stable period for the union, as the Guild settled into perhaps a too-cozy relationship with the newspaper companies. The union, recognizing it was more than just a Toronto organization, changed its name in the late 1970s to the Southern Ontario Newspaper Guild.