January Grievances 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.

Outsourcing of circulation work

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

UPDATE: The company has answered the Guild’s information request on the matter. Two grievance meetings have been postponed. A grievance meeting has been set for January 9th.

The Guild is looking into the use of temporary employees in distribution

UPDATE: The grievance committee has voted to accept the settlement. The company will pay out overtime to distribution members for time the temps worked.

Change in commission plan

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

UPDATE: There was a presentation on this matter at the December general membership meeting. The Guild is researching past practice on this matter.

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. We are awaiting a response.