The Guild and Star management have been in back-and-forth discussion to develop a cell-phone policy to resolve a grievance we filed so staffers – primarily reporters – are provided with the tools to do their jobs. Some of you have been supplied company cell phones – a practice the Star is doing away with in [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Ongoing Issues’
January 1, 2009
Guild intervenes on improper scheduling
During the December 18 meeting, the Guild also brought to management’s attention a problem with the scheduling for a Guild member. This full-time employee, who works a five-day, 40-hour schedule in the newsroom, had been scheduled by his manager to work 40 hours over six days. The reason given was another employee was on vacation [...]
January 1, 2009
A year of working to represent Guild members
These are some of the issues and problems the Guild has dealt with over the past year, along with some of its accomplishments:
+ In March the Guild filed a grievance over the hiring of a so-called “casual” employee to work as a copy editor in the newsroom. In addition to receiving no benefits, this “casual” [...]
