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    <pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 13:03:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>The law of diminishing returns</title>
      <description><![CDATA[SCHOLASTIC - No one knows better than Guild members about pitching in for the company during the dark days of the economy. No one in the entire company worked harder. Maybe during those bleak times there were few options but to struggle through them.  But now, Guild members need relief from the long hours and the increasing workloads that we’ve endured.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 13:03:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>‘Me too’ contract provision kicks in for wages</title>
      <description><![CDATA[SCHOLASTIC - That additional 1.5 percent wage hike, retroactive to June 14, that we recently received is the result of a so-called “me too” clause the Guild negotiated into our new contract.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:44:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>You may bring a Guild rep to meetings where discipline looms</title>
      <description><![CDATA[SCHOLASTIC - Since some managers recently met with Guild members without disclosing their reasons, it is important that members know we have a federally guaranteed right to have Guild representation at any investigatory conversation or meeting with management that we believe could result in discipline, or that turns into a meeting that we think could lead to discipline. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:25:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Guild, Scholastic in tentative accord on four-year contract</title>
      <description><![CDATA[SCHOLASTIC - After all-day bargaining on Monday, the Newspaper Guild of New York and Scholastic reached a tentative agreement on a new four-year contract. Guild President Bill O’Meara led negotiations for the Guild in the final push for the new contract.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 19:05:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Scholastic: No retro for those earning more than $60K</title>
      <description><![CDATA[SCHOLASTIC - In the last bargaining session for a new contract on May 15, management demanded that we accept pay raise of 3% retroactive to June 2008 for only those Guild members who earned $60k a year or less. But those earning more would be rewarded for their hard work with nothing.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 05:03:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Management Asks Why Job Descriptions Are Important</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Guild told management that existing job descriptions, which still include "Gal Friday" as a job title, need overhauling. The management spokesperson said that his client needs to understand what members believe to be wrong with not having accurate job descriptions. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:28:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Company Turns Down Organizing Proposal</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The company also rejected our demand that it accept signed cards from employees who indicate that they want to become union members and that the company will remain neutral in any campaign to recruit new members.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:27:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Job Security Addressed in Contract Talks</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Both sides in contract talks temporarily held off tackling the very important economic issues in the second day of negotiations on November 14 in favor of addressing the Guild's concerns for improving job security for members and other significant non-economic issues. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:25:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Management Rejects Cash-Out Option for Vacations</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Guild has proposed a new schedule of vacation entitlement, including the right to carry over all unused vacation to the next year or to cash it out. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:35:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Demise of Coach Magazine Highlights Need for Job Security</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Management last week announced that it was closing Coach Magazine because it was no longer economically viable.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:35:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Get Involved! Become a Guild Shop Steward At Scholastic</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The following is in response to inquiries from members about how they can become involved in Guild efforts to improve our working lives at Scholastic.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.nyguild.org/scholastic-news-details/items/get-involved-become-a-guild-shop-steward-at-scholastic.html</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:38:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Members Concerned About Job Security</title>
      <description><![CDATA[One of the issues that continually comes up in discussions with members is job security and the contract language, which allows the company to restrict members' ability to apply their seniority companywide. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:36:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Company Fails to Offer Proposals, Wants to Talk Conceptually</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Contract talks began Tuesday with the Guild Bargaining Committee prepared to present its proposals. The company, however, said that it did not have proposals ready. Instead, management said it wanted to talk conceptually, adding that its concerns were almost exclusively about economics.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:35:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Contract Talks Set to Begin October 28</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Negotiations for a new contract between Scholastic and the Newspaper Guild of New York are scheduled to begin on October 28 when the two sides exchange proposals aimed at replacing the current pact that expired on February 14, 2008. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:26:00 -0500</pubDate>
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