(The following appeared on the Post Guild Facebook page.) We’d like to update you on the status of bargaining talks since a series of Guild membership meetings nearly two weeks ago. Since then, representatives for the Post and the Guild have agreed to talk off the record in hopes of negotiating a resolution after eight …
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First, many thanks to the 480 employees – a fantastic number — who signed the petition demanding that publisher Fred Ryan offer workers a fair contract. Your passion is making a difference. But we must do more. Urgently. The Post has signaled that it is closer than ever to a take-or-leave-it position. Among other things, …
The Post has relented on health coverage for part-timers working less than 30 hours per week and upped their wage offer to 2% in year one and 1.5% in year two, but only if we accept their pension proposal. Members debated what is to be done in four membership meetings on Friday, May 15, and …
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American Nurses Association workers have overwhelmingly ratified a new three-year collective bargaining agreement. The contract, ratified Feb. 18, provides for 3 percent raises in 2015, 2016, and 2017. The previous ANA contract covering about 125 Guild members was set to expire Feb. 14. About an hour before midnight on Feb. 13, however, a tentative pact …
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Guild negotiators are continuing to work toward a first collective bargaining agreement with RAINN management that recognizes our dedication — and no longer treats us like second-class citizens. The last real issue is fairness. We don’t think it’s fair that we get less vacation than every other employee of RAINN. Every em- ployee of RAINN …
TWO NEW OFFICERS JOIN LEADERSHIPTEAM Guild members last week overwhelmingly re-elected Laura Francis as their unit chair. She defeated Scott Harper, who was one of the unit vice chairs. Francis had served as co-chair with Gwen Holmes for the past two years. Holmes did not seek re- election, and Guild members decided earlier to return …
Radio Free Asia is a private, nonprofit corporation that broadcasts news and information to listeners in Asian countries where full, accurate, and timely news reports are unavailable. About 130 editors, reporters, technicians and others are protected by a contract that is bargained and enforced by the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild. The WBNG unit was organized at …
Raise of 3.8 percent cumulative over two years, cash bonuses of $1,750 The Guild and AFP on December 17 reached a tentative agreement on a new two-year contract which provides significant improvements following a period of a salary freeze. The contract, subject to ratification, calls for a wage hike of 2.0 percent in January 2015 …
Many may not know it, but the good salaries, excellent benefits, and job security that Bloomberg BNA employees enjoy are due in no small part to the tireless work of one person — Reza Namdar. For the better part of three decades, when a BNA employee (and yes it was just BNA for most of …
Still Waiting on Management’s First Wage Proposal In the latest bargaining session with the Washington Post, Guild negotiators were joined by staff writer Amy Goldstein, a union member who is one of the paper’s experts on the recent federal health care law. She gave a deeply researched presentation about the company’s proposal to stop offering …
