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MERCURY NEWS BARGAINING BULLETINS Details of the San Jose settlement Here are some details of the new contract your bargaining committee negotiated with the company. As you know, it is a difficult period in the newspaper industry and the country. This contract settlement represents our best efforts at protecting workers, jobs and quality at the Mercury News. The San Jose bargaining committee and representatives of the Mercury News have come to a tentative agreement on a new 18-month contract. Lead negotiator Darren Carroll will be verifying details of the deal with the company's representatives. Mercury News Bargaining Bulletin 16 Mediator keeps talks in confidence Representatives of the Guild and the Mercury News met today and had a serious discussion about pay cuts, jurisdiction and consolidation. At the direction of federal mediator David Weinberg, details of the current negotiations will remain in the confidence of the bargaining committee until we get more information from the company. Mercury News Bargaining Bulletin 15 But pay may fall -- and some jobs move to East Bay Guild and Mercury News negotiators on Tuesday traded proposals, and both sides expressed hope for a collective bargaining settlement in early May. Company officials dropped several demands, including removing advertising sales representatives from the bargaining unit and seeking a 40-hour work week. But the company made clear its need to find significant permanent savings to ensure the newspaper survives. Mercury News Bargaining Bulletin 14 Merc management proposes two-tiered salary structure The Mercury News on Wednesday expanded its wage concession proposal. In addition to seeking a 15 percent across-the-board wage cut for current employees, the company proposed that all future employees would come in at substantially lower salaries. The proposal came at a session where the Guild was expecting a long-awaited company proposal on revamping advertising commissions. Newspaper Guild-CWA representative Darren Carroll, the Guild's chief negotiator, told the company negotiators, "We're very confused about the message you intended to send," saying the introduction of a two-tiered salary structure would disrupt the parties' effort to quickly reach a new collective bargaining agreement. Mercury News Bargaining Bulletin 13 Talks yield no new agreements The San Jose negotiating team and the Mercury News met for a short session this afternoon. The MN offered a partial response to the Guild's proposal on cost reductions, but no tentative agreements were made. Mercury News Bargaining Bulletin 12 Guild offers comprehensive package The San Jose bargaining committee and the Mercury News resumed expedited negotiations Thursday for a new labor agreement, exchanging proposals that addressed jurisdiction, outsourcing and compensation. Guild negotiators offered a comprehensive package that outlined cost-reduction measures designed to meet the company's goal of reducing $1.5 million in annual expenses. The Guild proposals protect current pay scales, phase in health-care premium increases, preserve jobs and work in core areas, increase severance for those laid off due to outsourcing, and provide for experimentation with novel pay plans in advertising. Mercury News Bargaining Bulletin 11 No deal reached in MediaNews Guild unit merger talks BANG-EB and Mercury News to seek separate contracts Bargaining committees representing the two largest MediaNews Group Guild units in the Bay Area will resume expedited negotiations for individual contracts after talks about a proposed merger of the units failed to produce an agreement Monday. Mercury News Bargaining Bulletin 10 Guild bargaining team meets with federal mediator Guild bargaining teams met Tuesday with company representatives and agreed to meet with a federal mediator to explore the possibility of creating a merged unit including the existing BANG-EB and San Jose Mercury News guild units. Mercury News Bargaining Bulletin 9 Guild exploring consolidating bargaining units Media News and Guild negotiators agreed on Tuesday to hold talks in March to explore consolidating the East Bay and San Jose units. The exploratory talks, to be held under the direction of federal mediator David Weinberg, were sought by company officials. Mercury News Bargaining Bulletin 8 San Jose bargaining to resume in January Guild and Mercury News negotiators today spent most of the bargaining session discussing proposals on union and academic leaves of absence. No agreements were reached. Bargaining is now recessed until January. Mercury News Bargaining Bulletin 7 Guild and Mercury News negotiators today spent a full bargaining session discussing contract language covering grievance and arbitration, holidays, work and family issues, no pay reductions and the process for determining the starting wage rate for new employees. Mercury News Bargaining Bulletin 6 Guild seeks alternatives to layoffs, pay cuts Mercury News negotiators, echoing the layoff forecast of publisher Mac Tully, on Tuesday warned of drastic responses to the company’s faltering economic position, in the third full day of negotiations with the Newspaper Guild to replace the collective bargaining agreement that expired last month. Mercury News Bargaining Bulletin 5 Merc management proposes sweeping contract changes Mercury News management on Monday proposed sweeping contract changes, including the removal of advertising, circulation and marketing department members and assigning editors from Guild protection. The proposal came as the two sides exchanged initial proposals during the second bargaining session for a collective bargaining agreement to replace the contract that expired last week. Mercury News Bargaining Bulletin 4 Merc bargaining to resume on Nov. 3 Guild bargaining with the Mercury News will resume on Monday morning, November 3. Our plan for Monday is to exchange contract proposals and to begin a discussion about various issues. Mercury News Bargaining Bulletin 3 Bargaining postponed once again in San Jose Once again, the Guild and Mercury News decided to postpone today's scheduled bargaining session after the paper said the economy had delayed its plans to present a comprehensive proposal. There are currently no bargaining meetings scheduled. Mercury News Bargaining Bulletin 2 The Guild and Mercury News decided to postpone today's scheduled bargaining session after the paper said the worsening economy had forced it to revamp its initial proposal. Mercury News Bargaining Bulletin 1 Contract bargaining begins in San Jose The Guild and the company opened bargaining on a new collective bargaining agreement on Tuesday with both sides expressing hope a new agreement can be reached by the time the current contract expires Oct. 31. Guild members are being asked to attend a special noon membership meeting Oct 2 at the Guild office to approve the bargaining proposals that will be presented Oct. 8, when the two sides meet again to exchange initial proposals. |
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