The Toledo Newspaper Guild's human rights program works toward fairness and equity for all in the workplace. The goals of The Newspaper Guild's human rights program include ensuring the rights of members; promoting diversity in the industry and in our union; creating an environment that fosters equal opportunity and permits every member to reach full potential, and eliminating harassment and hostile work environments.

Those goals were reaffirmed at the 2005 Guild Sector Conference -- the annual meeting of The Newspaper Guild -- which called on all levels of union leadership to make issues of equity and diversity a top priority. The conference also said that locals and members should continue to form alliances with groups that share the Guild's human rights objectives. The Toledo Newspaper Guild has continuing associations with the Northwest Ohio Black Media Association, which is the local chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists, and the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association.