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FIRST ON FOX — The NewsGuild of New York is irked at The New York Occasions management.
The Occasions Guild Bargaining Committee despatched staffers a e-newsletter on Tuesday detailing the newest labor negotiations. The Guild stated it made a “huge push to finish the two-tier system The New York Occasions created and perpetuates by wrongly excluding jobs and employees from the Occasions Guild” and obtained a revised proposal from the corporate to finish all hybrid work ensures on March 1, 2027.
“At that time, they might have the precise to require us to work within the workplace 5 days per week and to get rid of our contractually assured three weeks of distant work per yr. As we noticed this fall: If the corporate can scale back our assured remote-work days, they may. However when requested for information on how in-office work makes our information product, promoting and enterprise operations higher, the administration aspect of the desk was silent,” the Guild wrote within the e-mail obtained by Fox Information Digital.
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The NewsGuild of New York and The New York Occasions management held a bargaining session on Tuesday. (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto by way of Getty Pictures)
“On our aspect, we made a giant push to finish the two-tier system The New York Occasions created and perpetuates by wrongly excluding jobs and employees from the Occasions Guild. As we speak, we requested the corporate to acknowledge greater than 50 of our colleagues’ correct place in our bargaining unit, folks with whom we work aspect by aspect as members of the Occasions Guild,” the Occasions Guild Bargaining Committee continued. “Maintaining union work within the union is one among our core priorities.”
The Guild believes positions together with audio engineers, puzzle editors, viewers and web optimization editors, bureau chiefs primarily based in cities throughout the nation and editors on the Newsroom Growth and Help group deserve “the identical important protections and advantages we’ve got fought for beneath our union contract” and listed “annual raises, simply trigger job protections, hour-for-hour additional time or comp time and minimal salaries for every place” as key examples.
“One of many 5 core priorities all of us recognized for this contract marketing campaign is retaining union work in our union. These wrongly excluded jobs symbolize one other means the corporate has undercut our union by arbitrarily excluding colleagues who’re doing the identical work as us, thus making a two-tier system of pay and advantages,” the Guild wrote.
The Occasions Guild Bargaining Committee despatched staffers a e-newsletter on Tuesday detailing the newest labor negotiations. (Getty Pictures)
The Guild informed members it proposed that the Occasions ought to give the Guild 30 days discover when it creates a brand new job “whether or not such job falls inside the jurisdiction of the Guild or the place is excluded,” and that any disputes over newly created jobs needs to be “referred to the expedited arbitration provisions using the events’ Jurisdiction panel of arbitrators on a rotational foundation.”
The Guild desires the Occasions to produce it with an outline of the duties, duties, proposed classification and efficient date of a brand new job. The Guild can be asking it to be clearly famous that open jobs are Guild-represented positions when posted internally or externally, and for 30-days’ discover when people at present represented by the Guild are transferred to Guild-excluded positions.
“We obtained the corporate’s responses to our requests for data associated to a number of of our core points in these negotiations: badge-swipe surveillance getting used to implement in-office expectations; the corporate’s current and deliberate makes use of of synthetic intelligence; and the creation of a two-tier system by excluding The Athletic from our union,” the Occasions Guild Bargaining Committee wrote.
“Sadly, administration declined to reply — practically throughout the board — intimately to our requests, as an alternative dismissing our questions as ‘overly broad,’ ‘speculative,’ ‘unduly burdensome,’ and ‘not related,’” they added.
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Members of the Occasions Tech Guild picket exterior the New York Occasions headquarters in New York on Nov. 4, 2024. (Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg by way of Getty Pictures)
The Guild additionally informed members that the Occasions “up to date its proposal for financing our well being fund,” however dismissed the notion it might “bankrupt the fund.”
“We perceive that. It nonetheless goes again to [cost] sharing and accountability,” Occasions Govt Director for Labor Relations Chris Biegner informed the Guild, based on the e-newsletter distributed to members.
“Of their counter to our efficiency analysis proposal, administration rejected a number of of our proposed modifications, together with exemptions from the score system for workers who take a certain quantity of depart, transparency about who (resembling desk heads, masthead editors and H.R.) contributed to an worker’s analysis, and shifting the evaluate interval in order that it covers a full yr of labor,” the Guild wrote.
The subsequent bargaining session is scheduled for Feb. 18. The present contract expires on the finish of the month.
The Guild informed members it proposed that the Occasions ought to give the Guild 30 days discover when it creates a brand new job “whether or not such job falls inside the jurisdiction of the Guild or the place is excluded.”
When reached for remark, The New York Occasions offered Fox Information Digital with a sequence of inner notes that managing editors Marc Lacey and Carolyn Ryan have despatched to Occasions Guild unit members.
In January, Lacey and Ryan stated conversations have been “productive,” however really feel an excessive amount of focus is being spent worrying about staffers who aren’t members of the Guild. The Athletic, a separate entity with its personal management group that’s owned by the Occasions, has been a sticking level.
“Within the room, the Guild indicated that they might not settle for any contract phrases that do not cowl The Athletic becoming a member of The New York Occasions newsroom bargaining unit. We concern that setting this situation undermines the trail to attending to an excellent deal any time quickly,” Lacey and Ryan wrote final month after the primary negotiating session.
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“The corporate has stated many occasions that we’d acknowledge unionization for Athletic workers as a separate unit in the event that they select to pursue it,” they continued. “We additionally need to state up entrance that we don’t assume we should always maintain up a brand new contract and better salaries for some 1,500 Occasions Guild workers due to a requirement to include workers from a wholly separate newsroom.”
Lacey and Ryan have insisted they wish to attain a deal.
The Athletic writer David Perpich beforehand acknowledged that he believes “one of the best strategy is to have The Athletic’s journalists type a separate bargaining unit inside the NewsGuild, to not have them absorbed into the Occasions unit.”
