April Grievience Update

The following grievances have been filed with the company. At this point, the company and Guild will meet to try to resolve these issues. If no resolution is agreed to the grievance returns back to our grievance committee where we can vote to send the issue to arbitration.

Circulation managers doing Guild work

The Guild is investigating issues of managers doing data entry work and other Guild jurisdictional work.

UPDATE: The Guild and company have met on these two issues. The company has denied both grievances. The Guild has submitted the files to TNG’s Legal Services.

Outsourcing of circulation work

The Guild has filed a grievance on the outsourcing of corporate billing work to outside vendors.

UPDATE: The Guild continues to investigate the company’s claim that it needed to move this work in order to comply with ABC audit standards for coupons. The company has agreed to waive the timelines for filing for arbitration.

Change in commission plan

We have filed a grievance over the change in commission plans in advertising.

UPDATE: The company does have some contractual latitude to change commission plans and no relevant past practices have come to light. The grievance committee has voted to dismiss this incident.

The Community Leader

We have filed a grievance based on the recent movement of work and changes made to the Community Leader based primarily on the jurisdiction language in our contract. Some community leader work (employees) has been moved inside 390 Congress, some Guild members are now doing Community Leader work, the Community Leader is now being inserted into the Press Herald, and we’re sharing management.

UPDATE: The Guild has tolled (legal term that sets aside timelines) this issue while the company decides if it wants to negotiate this matter with our lawyer. The Guild is awaiting a response.