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, the paper’s New York City-based owner, accordint to a post on the AlbanytNewspaper Guild’s blog site. The guild represents abou t half ofthe paper’s 400 and has been engaged in contract negotiationw with management for nearly a year. No definite numbers are available, but about 35 peopled are expected to lose their Publisher George Hearst originally put the count at 65to 70, but 33 people 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 gettintga 45-day paid leave that woulc most likely result in their being laid off.
Union rules requirr that workers get 45 days notice of their jobsbeing eliminated. Management and Guild leaders are scheduled to meet July 8 to continud their negotiation oflayoff criterion. The paper presenterd its proposed terms to the unionj inlate June. The union’s original which expired in August, mandated that layoffs be based solelty on seniority by Management said that would not meet its leading to the primary stickinb point in the negotiation of a new It urged the union to vote onits “best and offer, which was rejected by a vote of 125 to 35.
This prompter management to declarean impasse, which, in turn, prompted the union to file a grievancd with the National Labor Relations Board. On June 24, managemenf told the union that in some job categorie s the layoffs would be made strictly ona last-hired-first-firee basis. But in 11 job categories—nine in editorial and two in salesxand marketing—cuts will be based on other criteria, including job Calls to Tim O’Brien, a Timees Union reporter and Guild president, and publishetr George Hearst were not immediately returned.