Bargaining set for Aug. 6-7, important developments

The Indianapolis News Guild has some important new developments to share with you regarding our ongoing effort to craft a final contract that both negotiating teams can accept and that you, our duespayers, can ratify soon.
Acting on the advice of our parent union, TNG-CWA, we proposed to the company that we involve a federal mediator [...]

Aftermath of layoffs

We lost 14 Guild members over a 2-day period, and almost all of them were duespayers. On Friday we will begin the process of making sure those names are removed from the payroll deduction list. Guild officers also have begun to dissect the layoff list to check it against seniority guidelines as outlined by our [...]

Latest layoffs expected to start

Based on an e-mail all of us Gannett properties received last week, we expect some bad news to strike the newsroom by Thursday, with the possibility (based on reports on various blogs) that some employees could receive word of a layoff as early as this evening. Your Guild has tried to become part of the [...]

Star management rejects Guild’s offer to seek volunteers for layoffs

Guild officers met with James Keough of Human Resources on Thursday afternoon to offer to determine whether any Guild members wanted to volunteer for the upcoming layoffs in order to preserve the jobs of co-workers. The Guild did this for the layoffs in December. Four long-time employees volunteered to be laid off to allow less [...]

Information on furloughs and filing for unemployement

Thanks to Judy Wolf (author) and Carolyn Doyle (proofer) for their work on this question and answer and step-by-step guide to dealing with furloughs and filing for unemployment in Indiana.