Our annual LABOR MEDIA AWARDS recognizes excellence among member publications, websites, film, video and other media.
It is the largest competition exclusively for labor communicators and journalists.
Eligibility
To enter the awards, your organization must be a paid-up member of ILCA. To join ILCA and submit your annual membership dues click here. Entries are for work published or released in the prior calendar year. Organizations entering materials agree to permit ILCA to use the work at the ILCA convention or awards presentation, and in ILCA publications, websites and social media sites. If an entry is a winner in the contest, it may be donated to the University of Maryland’s Labor Archives. NOTE: Contest categories and eligibility rules have changed since 2023. Please make sure you reference this year's explainer document.
Judging
Judging is performed across the United States by ILCA members and others with expertise in the specific categories. Unless otherwise noted, each category is judged in two separate class groups: National/International Unions, Federations, Councils & Allied Organizations; and Local/Regional/State Federations, Central/Area Labor Councils & Allied Organizations. Judges may award First, Second and Third Awards in each category to each class group. No awards are given in categories for which judges determine entries do not merit them.
An independent panel of judges may award First, Second and Third Awards in each category to each class group. No awards are given in categories for which judges determine entries do not merit them.
Entry Guidelines
Entries published or released in the prior calendar year are eligible. The exceptions are website or app awards which, because of the nature of the medium, may be judged on what is posted at the time of judging. All entries and entry materials should be submitted digitally online here. Entrants may choose to enter their work into more than one category, provided that it applies to the specific criteria stated within each category.
How to Enter
All entries should be submitted via this google form. If you are submitting multiple entries, you will go through the form for each submission starting with selecting the award for each entry. If you have a google account your information should be saved for each submission and you will just have to select the award category and upload your file. In the week following your submissions you will be invoiced for your total entry fee amount.
Entry Fees
I understand that I will have to pay the applicable $40 per entry fee if submitted by April 20. Entries received after April 20 will be $60 per entry, and entries received after May 18 will be $80 per entry. Submissions will close July 1, NOTE: THERE WILL BE NO EXTENSIONS. If payment is not received your submissions will not be eligible.
Note: All entry fees are non-refundable.
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