Contract
Negotiations to Start on October 2
First
Session at Time Inc.
Fresh
from a lively, well-attended General Membership meeting on the
Contract-extension negotiations, the Guild and Time Inc. management will begin
those negotiations on Thursday, October 2, at 10 a.m. at Time Inc.
We will let you know which meeting room we will be in once one is
assigned.
The
Guild emphatically encourages all of its members to attend this session to lend
support to the Guild’s negotiating team, led by New York Guild President Barry
Lipton and Time Inc. Unit Chairperson John Shostrom.
The more members there are at the negotiations, the greater is the
demonstrated support for the Guild.
You
don’t need to come for the whole day. Any
time that you can spare – a half-hour or an hour at lunch – will help the
Guild. If you have the day off and want to spend it with the Guild,
that’s even better.
The Guild
expects that these negotiations will be fairly short, because the company and
the Guild have agreed that the negotiations will be restricted in scope to wages
and raise structure, as they were in the 2001 Contract-extension negotiations.
A major goal of the Guild this time around is to get rid of the merit
pool and thereby guarantee 100% of whatever raise is negotiated.
If you want to be assured of seeing the action, be
sure to come on October 2 – the 2001 talks lasted only one day.
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