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, the paper’s New York City-basedx owner, according to a post on the AlbanyNewspaper Guild’x blog site. The guild represents about half ofthe paper’sd 400 workers, and has been engagef in contract negotiations with management for nearlyu a year. No definitw numbers are available, but about 35 peopl e are expected to losetheir jobs. Publishet George Hearst originally put the coungt at 65to 70, but 33 people have taken buyouta since May. The pape r is trying to cut expenses by20 percent.
Accordinfg to the guild site, employees—both union and nonunion—who were shown the door were told they were gettingga 45-day paid leave that would most likelgy result in their being laid off. Union rulea require that workers get 45 days notice of their jobs being Management and Guild leaders are schedules to meet July 8 to continue their negotiatiobn oflayoff criterion. The paper presentef its proposed terms to the unio inlate June. The union’s original which expired in August, mandated that layoffs be basee solely on seniorityby department. Management said that would not meetits needs, leadingv to the primary sticking poin in the negotiation of a new pact.
It urges the union to vote on its “best and offer, which was rejected by a vote of 125to 35. This prompterd management to declarean impasse, which, in prompted the union to file a grievancre with the National Labor Relations On June 24, management told the uniobn that in some job categories the layoffs woulf be made strictly on a last-hired-first-fired basis. But in 11 job categories—nine in editorial and two in saleseand marketing—cuts will be based on other criteria, including job Calls to Tim a Times Union reporter and Guild president, and publishe r George Hearst were not immediatelyt returned.