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    <pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:32:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>First accolades, then a warning</title>
      <description><![CDATA[CONSUMER REPORTS - Last year CR management was singing the praises of of Program Leader Ed Miller. This year, they're threatening to show him the door.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:32:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>CU management takes the cake</title>
      <description><![CDATA[CONSUMERS UNION - Through its proposals in negotiations, management said of its employees, "Let them eat cake," then at a party, CU officials stole the cake. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:26:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Management's massive giveback demands</title>
      <description><![CDATA[CONSUMERS UNION - You don't have to look any further than management's group medical plan proposal to realize how staggering retrogressive its new contract proposals are, despite its claims to the contrary.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.nyguild.org/consumers-news-details/items/managements-massive-giveback-demands.html</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 08:43:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>It all begins today</title>
      <description><![CDATA[CONSUMERS UNION - The first bargaining session for a new contract is this afternoon. Will management attempt to split our membership?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 08:36:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Defined benefit retirement plan: we fought for it, we paid for it</title>
      <description><![CDATA[CONSUMERS UNION - In 2002, 'Consumer Reports' sang the praises of a defined-benefit pension plan in the pages of its magazine. Will management now turn around and attempt to freeze the plan in upcoming negotiations?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:57:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>What your union does for you</title>
      <description><![CDATA[CONSUMERS UNION - The very quick and easy response to the question about what your union does for you is that it negotiates the terms and conditions of your working lives. But there's much more.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.nyguild.org/consumers-news-details/items/what-your-union-does-for-you.html</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:01:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Guild's auditor confirms CU not obligated to pay bonuses</title>
      <description><![CDATA[CONSUMERS UNION - Not taking management's word for it that CU was not obliged to make a payment of bonuses under a 2009 agreement, the Guild sent the company's financial statements to our auditors for examination. Our experts concurred that the agreed-upon threshold for a payment wasn't met.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.nyguild.org/consumers-news-details/items/guilds-auditor-confirms-cu-not-obligated-to-pay-bonuses.html</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:01:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Pierdiluca declared elected to succeed South as Chairperson</title>
      <description><![CDATA[CONSUMERS UNION - There were no nominations for unit officers submitted via petition, therefore the slate of candidates nominated at last week's membership meeting were declared elected as of 5 p.m. Wednesday, September 29.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.nyguild.org/consumers-news-details/items/pierdiluca-declared-elected-to-succeed-south-as-unit-chairperson.html</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:55:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>No layoffs on the horizon</title>
      <description><![CDATA[CONSUMERS UNION - The ban on layoffs that CU agreed to last summer expires at the the end of the year and some Guild members fear that their jobs are in joepardy. Barring a catastrophic development, the Guild has been assured, that simply isn't so.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.nyguild.org/consumers-news-details/items/breathe-easy-no-layoffs-on-the-horizon.html</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:50:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Unit Chair Bill South warns:  CU is at a crossroad</title>
      <description><![CDATA[CONSUMERS UNION - I have been a CU employee and a Guild activist for 36 years. During that time, I have written many Guild shop papers - this one is different. I am not writing to you as the Chair of our union, I am writing as a concerned CU employee.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 04:40:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Meetings Set To Ratify Guild’s Contract Proposal</title>
      <description><![CDATA[We’ve scheduled meetings around the United States so Guild members can learn about and ratify our contract proposals in advance of negotiations, which are set to begin by the end of October.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.nyguild.org/consumers-news-details/items/meetings-set-to-ratify-guilds-contract-proposal.9.html</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:26:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Voluntary Buyouts Avert Layoffs</title>
      <description><![CDATA[After a lengthy negotiating session, Guild and CU representatives reached an agreement on a voluntary "buyout" for up to 25 Guild-represented employees.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2001 03:57:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Negotiations Continue for Voluntary Buyouts</title>
      <description><![CDATA[With several issues still left to resolve, the Guild and the Publisher's negotiators made significant progress in negotiating a voluntary buyout program.  ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2001 03:36:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Buyout Talks to Continue</title>
      <description><![CDATA[New York President Barry Lipton updated Guild members about buyout talks with management at a Unit Membership meeting.  ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2001 03:16:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Committee Fails to Agree on Alternative to Merit Pay for Final 1% of Pay Hike</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Guild-Consumers Union Partnership Committee has failed to reach a common ground on how to equitably distribute the 1% in merit pool funds earmarked for the year 2002.  ]]></description>
      <link>http://www.nyguild.org/consumers-news-details/items/committee-fails-to-agree-on-alternative-to-merit-pay-for-final-1-of-pay-hike.html</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2001 03:03:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Bill South Nominated For Unit Chairperson</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Retiring Unit Chairperson Ed Lopez calls South the "best man for the job", noting that it was Bill's father who organized the CU unit of the N.Y. Guild 50 years ago.    ]]></description>
      <link>http://www.nyguild.org/consumers-news-details/items/bill-south-nominated-for-unit-chairperson.218.html</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2001 10:17:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Publisher Playing Musical Chairs With a Vengeance</title>
      <description><![CDATA[In the past, the Publisher has claimed an "unfettered right" to make changes in job descriptions and work assignments.  It seems the assertion has resurfaced...]]></description>
      <link>http://www.nyguild.org/consumers-news-details/items/publisher-playing-musical-chairs-with-a-vengeance.html</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2001 10:05:00 -0500</pubDate>
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