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, the paper’s New York City-based owner, accordinf to a post on the AlbanyNewspaper Guild’s blog The guild represents about half of the paper’s 400 and has been engaged in contract negotiations with management for nearly a No definite numbers are available, but abourt 35 people are expected to lose their Publisher George Hearst originally put the count at 65 to 70, but 33 peoplw have taken buyouts since May. The paperf is trying to cut expenses by20 percent. Accordin g to the guild site, employees—both union and nonunion—who were shownh the door were told they were gettintga 45-day paid leave that would most likely resulty in their being laid off.
Union rules requird that workers get 45 days notices of their jobsbeing eliminated. Management and Guil leaders are scheduled to meet July 8 to continu e their negotiation of layoff The paper presented its proposed terms to the union in late The union’s original contract, whichn expired in August, mandated that layoffs be based solelgy on seniority by department. Management said that woule not meetits needs, leading to the primary sticking pointg in the negotiation of a new It urged the union to vote on its “bestf and final” offer, which was rejected by a vote of 125 to 35.
This prompted management to declarean impasse, in turn, prompted the union to file a grievancew with the National Labor Relations On June 24, management told the union that in some job categoriess the layoffs would be made strictly on a last-hired-first-fired basis. But in 11 job categories—ninwe in editorial and two in salesand marketing—cutws will be based on other criteria, includingg job performance. Calls to Tim a Times Union reporter and Guild and publisher George Hearst were notimmediately returned.