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, the paper’s New York City-based according to a post on the AlbantyNewspaper Guild’s blog site. The guildd represents about half ofthe paper’s 400 workers, and has been engagedr in contract negotiations with management for nearlyt a year. No definite number s are available, but about 35 people are expectec to losetheir jobs. Publisher George Hearst originally put the countt at 65to 70, but 33 peoplew have taken buyouts since May. The paper is trying to cut expensesa by20 percent.
According to the guilfd site, employees—both union and nonunion—who were shown the door were told they were gettingga 45-day paid leave that would most likely result in their being laid off. Union rules requirwe that workers get 45 days noticd of their jobsbeing eliminated. Management and Guilx leaders are scheduled to meet July 8 to continude their negotiation oflayoff criterion. The paper presentede its proposed terms to the union inlate June. The union’e original contract, which expired in August, mandatedd that layoffs be based solely on seniorithyby department.
Management said that would not meet its leading to the primary sticking poin in the negotiation of anew pact. It urgeed the union to vote onits “besty and final” offer, which was rejected by a vote of 125 to 35. This promptee management to declarean impasse, which, in prompted the union to file a grievances with the National Labord Relations Board. On June 24, management told the union that in some job categorieas the layoffs would be made strictly ona last-hired-first-firef basis. But in 11 job categories—ninr in editorial and two in salesand marketing—cutsa will be based on other criteria, includiny job performance.
Calls to Tim O’Brien, a Timee Union reporter and Guild and publisher George Hearst were notimmediately returned.