February 22, 2006

GUILD ADDS NEW

LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE

TO STAFF

 

Anthony Napoli has joined the Guild's staff of Local Representatives, leaving his post as the New York Times unit's Grievance Chair, a position he had held for three years.

 

Napoli joined the Times staff in 1986, and by 1995 was working as an advertising production representative in the customer fulfillment (COF) department, where he prepared clients' ad copy and art for publication.

 

A former member of New York's Executive Committee, Anthony served as a Times delegate to our Representative Assembly in the 1980s, becoming a shop steward in 1988.  Beginning in 1994, Anthony was a member of four of his shop's Negotiating Committees and was elected a delegate to three Newspaper Guild conventions and to three conventions of the Communications Workers of America (CWA), our parent union.  He was selected to attend the 2004 session of the New Officers Seminar, conducted by The Newspaper Guild International, in Washington, D.C.

 

A graduate of Plainview Old Bethpage High School, on Long Island, Napoli spent two years at C.W. Post College, studying business administration.

 

He is married and has a 12-year-old son.

 

ANNUAL ADJUSTMENT IN DUES BASE

 

Each year, as mandated by The Newspaper Guild International, the ceiling is raised on the maximum weekly salary to which dues are fully applied, in all Guild Locals.  Effective March 1, 2006, that ceiling is being raised to a top salary of $1,995 per week.  This change could have been made effective last October 1^st; however, implementation of the change was delayed until this time.

Few members of the New York Guild earn more than $1,995 per week and, ordinarily, almost all Local 3 members will continue to pay the same amount of dues they pay now, with no increase.  However, top earners may see a small increase in dues, depending on their salary.

 

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