Delaware County Times contract ratified
Guild members, This evening your co-workers voted 47-15 to ratify an initial contract with 21st CMH, the new owners of the bankrupt Journal Register Company. Highlights of the 2 year contract after the sale closes in April include, No reduction of pay over the 2 year term. No involuntary layoffs for the first year, except […]
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JRC Tentative Agreements reached at 4 papers.
Guild JRC members, You will be receiving a WARN notice from JRC, which is required by law. DO NOT panic. All of our members will be rehired by 21st CMH the potential buyer of JRC. We have tentative new contracts that over the next 4 weeks we will be meeting to ratify. As I […]
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JRC Chapter 11 part 2
NEWSGUILD NAMED CO-CHAIR OF JRC CREDITORS’ COMMITTEE Staff September 14, 2012 NewsGuild-CWA NewsGuild-CWA was named one of five members, and co-chair, of the creditors’ committee as the Journal Register Company bankruptcy proceeded Thursday with an initial hearing in New York City. The Guild is represented on the committee by Philadelphia Newspaper Guild Executive Director Bill […]
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Delaware County Times members ratify 18 month agreement.
After a difficult round of bargaining, Guild members approved an 18 month contract with the Journal Register owned Delaware County Times. The Guild fought back the employer’s proposal on ousourcing Guild work, and an attack on contractual benefits, mainly sick time. “Keeping our work here, was our main goal.” Said Guild Executive Director Bill Ross.
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JRC Contracts Extended.
March 27, 2012 Guild members, Today, all three of our JRC contracts, the Delaware County Times, The Pottstown Mercury, and the Norristown Times Herald, have been extended for an additional 90 days with a no layoff guarantee over the 90 days, and if layoffs were to be announced, the earliest they could occur would be […]
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Bring Us the Decider
You ever talk to that bored-looking teenager at the counter and realize you’re getting nowhere because this kid either doesn’t know the answers, or isn’t authorized to answer? Well, that’s where we are folks. We’ve asked to see the manager. Seven months in, and now using a federal mediator and we still have yet to […]
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Pottstown Unit Bargaining Update
Hello fellow Guild members. Forgive our tardiness in giving you an update, but there wasn’t too much to report. Here is the latest. First of all, as many of you may realize, our contract with The Mercury expired on March 31. As in past negotiations, it has been extended one month by mutual agreement. All […]
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A Very Important Message Regarding Your Newspaper Guild Health Benefits
Over the past few years, as health care costs have risen at nearly five times the rate of inflation, the Newspaper Guild’s Health & Welfare Trustees (three Guild representatives and three company representatives) have worked diligently to continue to provide the best possible care at the most affordable price. This, however, has come at a […]
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Surpassed $40 million profit sharing goal
Congratulations to all our Journal Register members!! The following email was sent earlier this week by JRC CEO John Patton to all JRC members who surpassed the company’s profit sharing goal of $40 million set by JRC last year. All Guild members received an additional weeks pay as the part of the profit sharing. Folks, […]
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Agreed to extend current CBA
Guild Members, On November 17, 2009 The Newspaper Guild and The Delaware County Times have agreed to extend the current collective bargaining agreement for and additional 60 days, through January 25, 2010. Both sides have agreed to keep bargaining in good faith over the next 60 days, and all current terms of the contract remain […]
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