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    <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:01:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>McGraw-Hill pension freeze won't affect Guild staff at S&amp;P</title>
      <description><![CDATA[STANDARD & POOR'S - McGraw-Hill announces a freeze of its defined-benefit pension plan for all employees. But it won't affect the Guild staff at S&P. We have a contract. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:01:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Don't be an amateur - if you work overtime, get paid for it</title>
      <description><![CDATA[STANDARD & POOR'S - Already overburdened with workload problems, Equity Research Services analysts are facing earlier starts.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:06:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Thanks and a tip of the hat for the way S&amp;P deals with Irene</title>
      <description><![CDATA[STANDARD & POOR'S - After forcing some of its employees to use vacation or personal days to be paid when they couldn't make it into work as a result of last winter's blizzards, S&P management does the right thing by them regarding Hurricane Irene.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:54:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Hurricane advisory: If weather keeps you at home, say so</title>
      <description><![CDATA[STANDARD & POOR'S - The Guild has learned S&P has a payroll code designated as, 098 Weather. If you can't get into work as a result of the hurricane, we suggest you use it.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:20:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Doesn’t 'Working Mother' know S&amp;P belongs to McGraw-Hill?</title>
      <description><![CDATA[STANDARD & POOR'S - Melissa Quiles, the mother of a 4-year-old girl with another baby on the way, was fired from S&P. Wait to you read the reason.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:30:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Two industry analysts given layoff notices</title>
      <description><![CDATA[STANDARD & POOR'S - Two Guild industry analysts and five non-Guild employees in that department have been notified their jobs will end September 30.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:21:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>S&amp;P cuts three more Guild positions</title>
      <description><![CDATA[STANDARD & POOR'S - Management last week announced the reduction of three more Guild-represented positions, bringing the total to seven to take effect so far this year.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:53:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Severance package available for AA to leave S&amp;P</title>
      <description><![CDATA[STANDARD & POOR'S - The Guild is seeking a volunteer, an administrative assistant in Job Security Group A, to accept a severance package to leave S&P to save the job of a targeted layoff victim.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 09:32:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Guild's position on storm alert</title>
      <description><![CDATA[STANDARD & POOR'S - The Guild has filed a grievance regarding management's handling of the December 27, 2010, blizzard. It's been denied, but S&P hasn't heard the end ot it.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:46:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>'Take precautions for travel safety,' but be sure to get to work</title>
      <description><![CDATA[STANDARD & POOR'S - The Guild files a grievance against S&P, which pays some Guild-represented employees, who didn't make it into work during the blizzard of December 27, 2010. And then forces others to take a vacation or personal day.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:58:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>S&amp;P notifies Guild of layoff in Risk Solutions</title>
      <description><![CDATA[STANARD & POOR'S - Management recently served a 60-day notice to the Guild that it will eliminate 19 positions worldwide in Risk Solutions, which will include seven jobs here in New York. Three of of the positions are in Guild jurisdiction.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:55:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Restructuring won't endanger Guild protection, S&amp;P insists</title>
      <description><![CDATA[STANDARD & POOR'S - The major restructuring announced last week will have no detrimental effect on Guild jurisdiction, S&P official tells the Guild.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.nyguild.org/standard-poors-news-details/items/restructuring-wont-endanger-guild-protection-sp-insists.html</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:03:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Unit Council nominates officers</title>
      <description><![CDATA[STANDARD &amp; POOR'S - The Unit Council has nominated Edward Fannon for re-election as Chairperson of the S&P unit of the Guild for a fifth term.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:26:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Second request for volunteers</title>
      <description><![CDATA[STANDARD & POOR'S - After being notified that an Administrative Assistant and a Production Coordinator will be laid off in the Index Department the Guild making a second request for volunteers to leave their jobs in exchange for severances packages.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:38:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Members ratify contract</title>
      <description><![CDATA[STANDARD & POOR'S - Guild members Thursday voted overwhlemingly to ratify a new three-year agreement with Standard & Poor's.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:53:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Guild reaches agreement on three-year pact</title>
      <description><![CDATA[STANDARD & POOR'S - The Newspaper Guild and S&P Wednesday reached a tentative agreement on a three-year contract, which calls for a 2.25% pay hike in the first year, retroactive to April 1, of this year.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:52:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>S&amp;P's 'retroactivity' deadline passes without agreement</title>
      <description><![CDATA[STANDARD & POOR'S - The deadline management had set of July 14 to reach an agreement in order for any pay increase in the first year of a new contract to be retroactive has passed without an agreement. But the Guild still expects back pay.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:29:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Index Department cuts seven</title>
      <description><![CDATA[STANDARD & POOR'S - S&P Monday announced the elimination of seven positions within the Index Department, including two in Guild Jurisdiction.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:37:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>S&amp;P shaves a couple of days off its 'retroactivity' deadline</title>
      <description><![CDATA[STANDARD & POOR'S - S&P shaved a couple of days of the time it said it has to have an agreement on a new contract in order for it to be retroactive. Management's lead negotiator now says he wants a tentative agreement by July 14.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:04:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>July 16 'drop dead date' for retroactivity, management negotiators threaten</title>
      <description><![CDATA[STANDARD & POOR's - The spokesman in negotiations for the company told the Guild Wednesday that management "remains committed to retroactivity through July 16, 2010."]]></description>
      <link>http://www.nyguild.org/standard-poors-news-details/items/july-16-drop-dead-date-for-retroactivity-management-negotiators-threaten.html</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:31:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>S&amp;P may agree to keep time-and-a-half for weekly OT hours 35-40</title>
      <description><![CDATA[STANDARD & POOR'S - Company negotiators Monday withdrew their demand for straight-time overtime for hours between 35 and 40 in a given week, bringing the parties much closer to an agreement on a six-part package that would clear the way for talks to begin in earnest on salary increases.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.nyguild.org/standard-poors-news-details/items/the-tide-changes-sp-may-agree-to-keep-time-and-a-half-between-35-and-40-hours-a-week.html</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 11:33:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>6-part package appears doomed</title>
      <description><![CDATA[STANDARD & POOR'S - A proposed "package agreement" that would have removed six items from the negotiating table appeared doomed Thursday when Standard & Poor's lead negotiator opened the discussion indicating a company demand for straight-time overtime for work between 35 and 40 hours in a week is too valuable to withdraw.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 15:32:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>S&amp;P negotiator talks tough as negotiations touch on economics</title>
      <description><![CDATA[STANDARD & POOR'S - The words of outside Attorney Steve Macri, the lead negotaitor for Standard & Poor's, show talks concerning economics will not be an easy task. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 13:51:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>S&amp;P wants a bargain: something important for nothing</title>
      <description><![CDATA[STANDARD & POOR'S - The lead negotiator for S&P in the latest round of bargaining chastised the Guild committee for seeking something in return as a quid pro quo for agreeing to a proposal that would make it quicker and easier for management to set new policies dealing with compliance and ethics issues.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 12:12:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>S&amp;P rejects Guild negotiators' bid to stop outsourcing</title>
      <description><![CDATA[STANDARD & POOR'S - If it is so important for S&P to put policies into effect quickly in order to conform to foreign regulations and do business overseas, then management should reward the Guild for providing that right by guaranteeing it will not lay off workers here and send our work there, the union says. S&P rejects that argument.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 13:40:00 -0500</pubDate>
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