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12.11.03
The Providence Journal today agreed to resume negotiations with the Guild. A bargaining session has been scheduled for 8 a.m. Tuesday, December 16, 2003. The meeting will be held in the Company's Human Resources conference room on the 2nd floor. The Guild expects the company to make a contract offer at that time. The session will be the first since the Guild membership rejected the previous company offer on June 12, 2003. At that time the Guild invited the Company to continue talks. Bargaining sessions are open to members to attend on their own time. • 12.1.03
Guild takes to the airwaves
"You know, most newspapers cover wrongdoing in high places. But the Providence Journal is actually involved in its own scandal," begins the ad, which is being broadcast on WHJY-FM, WSNE-FM, WHJJ-AM, and WCTK-FM. "Journal management has been found guilty of 27 labor law violations. Yet the paper keeps using unlawful tactics. Refusing to bargain for a fair contract. Stalling negotiations. Intimidating employees."
The ads were produced and financed by the Guild's parent union, the Communications Workers of America, and they are the first in a series intended to increase the pressure on the company to negotiate a fair contract. More...
• 10.17.03 The Journal has sent to about 60 employees a new "Policy on Public Appearances" that restricts out-of-work activities in ways that go beyond what the Guild contract requires. Despite its name, the policy applies to much more than public appearances, setting limits on all outside activities. More... • 10.10.03
The company will also start collecting back dues out of the paychecks of Guild members who have fallen behind in their payments. More... / Settlement agreement • 09.08.03
The Journal does not have a policy banning children from the building. In a conversation with Guild Administrator Tim Schick, Human Resources Director Thomas McDonough said that no such policy exists. Schick and McDonough discussed the matter because Pat Welker, managing editor for administration, had evicted three children of Guild members from the newsroom last week, saying it was company policy that no children were allowed. Advertiser leafleting elicits differing responses • Vote! • More... • 09.04.03 In another major legal success for the Guild, Judge Mary Lisi of U.S. District Court this morning ruled that all members of the Guild bargaining unit must pays dues to the union.
Lisi upheld an arbitrator's decision last July that ordered the Journal to reimburse the Guild for money owed by employees who failed to pay dues between Feb. 6, 2000 and Aug. 22, 2002. The Guild estimates that sum to be about $166,000.| |
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• 08.29.03 Pride Auto Group has become the latest major Journal advertiser to urge company management to drop its self-destructive bargaining tactics and offer Guild members a fair contract. In an Aug 25 letter to Publisher Howard Sutton, Pride Auto Group President Al Anjos warned ``the labor war going on at the Journal is causing harm not only to your employees but also to the Journal itself.'' Continued... |
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• 08.28.03 Pete Cardi, an owner of Cardi's Furniture, called Journal Publisher Howard Sutton this week to urge him to resolve the labor conflict at the Journal, after Guild members handed out leaflets outside Cardi's stores in West Warwick and Swansea, Mass., last Saturday. Cardi, whose company is one of the Journal's biggest advertisers, told Guild President John Hill that Guild members are Cardi's customers, "and we want to see them treated fairly.'' "We could not have hoped for a better result from our handbilling on Saturday," Hill said. "Pete Cardi is someone who can get the Journal's attention." The handbilling, organized by Executive Committee member Jordan Malik, is part of a multifaceted effort to pressure the company to return to the bargaining table. Continued... |
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• 08.18.03
The Belo Corp. has rejected the Guild's request to discipline Journal Publisher Howard Sutton and General Manager Mark Ryan for violating Belo's new ethics policy. • 07.29.03 The Guild has asked Belo to discipline Publisher Howard Sutton and General Manager Mark Ryan because they violated Belo's new ethics policy when, under their leadership, the company broke federal labor laws 27 times. • 07.24.03
• 07.03.03 Guild members who filled out a recent survey on the contract gave top priority to getting full retroactive pay equal to what nonunion workers received (3 percent in 2000, 3 percent in 2001, 0 in 2002, 3 percent in 2003). Their second most important desire was to eliminate the provision that would have made the contract contingent on the National Labor Relations Board dismissing the company's 27 unfair-labor-practice convictions. After the Guild voted 160 to 109 to reject the company's last contract offer, the Guild leadership asked members to complete a survey ranking what they most wanted changed in the company's proposal. Continued... • 06.27.03The Journal has informed the Guild that it will not meet to bargain for a new contract, alleging that "impasse" was reached on June 2 and calling its June 2 offer "final." During negotiations, the company had never referred to its most recent offer as a "final offer." Continued... • 06.17.03 The Guild has asked the company to return to the bargaining table, mailed a survey to members about their contract priorities, and begun planning actions to pressure the company to resume negotiation.. Continued...
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05.14.03
• Guild challenges Belo on law breaking At annual meeting, Kohring reminds Decherd of ethics rule Speaking at the Belo Corp.'s annual meeting in Dallas yesterday, Guild Executive Committee member Kerry Kohring told Belo chairman Robert Decherd that Journal executives had violated the company's own ethics code when they broke federal labor laws in their dealings with the Guild. Continued... Journal appeals ruling -- again •April 14, 2003 The Providence Journal has been found guilty on five charges brought against it by the National Labor Relations Board in the trial last fall. In September, the same judge found the Journal guilty of 22 charges from a previous trial. • April 8, 2003 • Index of Guild Leader newsletters from January 20, 1997 to now |
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T&G Outside
Circulation Workers Vote 39-10 for Union Representation
About 50 workers
in the Telegram & Gazette's outside circulation department voted 39-10
for representation by the Providence Newspaper Guild. This group includes
district managers, mobile drivers and dock workers. The National Labor
Relations Board supervised the March 19 election.
T&G Inside Circulation Workers Vote 13-8 for Guild Representation
In another
organizing win for the Providence Newspaper Guild, an inside circulation
unit at the Worcester Telegram & Gazette voted 13-8 to join the union.
It's the second victory at the Worcester paper this year. The National
Labor Relations Board supervised the May 10 election.
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