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NEWSPAPER GUILD OF DETROIT

BARGAINING BULLETIN Mar. 14, 2013

FIRST BARGAINING WITH 21ST CMH ACQUISITION

On March 13 and 14, the Newspaper Guilds Bargaining Committee had its first meetings with 21st CM

Acquisition Company, the company that is buying theMacomb Daily andDaily Tribune from the Journal Reg

Company (JRC). 21st CMH made a proposal to modify the current collective bargaining agreement, including

following:

Eliminate all work jurisdiction language.

Eliminate the requirement that editorial work be assigned to bargaining unit employees.

Work of Guild members could be outsourced and their jobs eliminated.

Management can do bargaining unit work.

Eliminate the restriction on layoff of classified sales employees due to transferring their work out of the

bargaining unit.

Eliminate the restriction on stringers displacing regular employees.

Eliminate the right of laid off employees to bump less senior employees in other classifications.

Eliminate the current NEHP Blue Care Network health insurance plan.

Place employees in a company health care plan (the Employers IBE EPO and IBP PPO Plans) with

information whatsoever about this plan no explanation of who the provider is, doctors and hospitals in

network, scope of coverage, benefits, annual deductibles, co-insurance, service co-pays, drug coverage

annual out-of-pocket maximums, lifetime maximums, etc.

Eliminate the right of current to employees get first consideration for job openings.

Eliminate the requirement that employees have regular shifts. Eliminate the restriction against part-time and temporary employees displacing full-time employees.

The company would have the right to modify the compensation structure, so the company could redu

or grant raises only to some people, and there would be no bargaining over pay.

Eliminate language stating that employees are not required to cross another unions picket line.

Eliminate the successor language stating that if the company sells the newspapers, the company must

the purchaser to keep the employees and honor the collective bargaining agreement.

These changes are a major assault on the job security of employees who have worked hard and made gr

sacrifices for these newspapers. They are also an assault on the right to bargain wages and critical benefits like

care.

Needless to say, the Bargaining Committee told 21st CMH that its proposal was unacceptable. We also

21st CMH that we could negotiate on economics, butpreserving jobs was our priority, and we were not interes

a contract that allowed our work to be outsourced. We said we would not give up the right to bargain wages a

health care. We set more bargaining sessions for March 30 and 31 and April 1.

We asked officers and members of the Pressmen and Teamsters to sit in on our bargaining sessions. Th

helped us convey the message to 21st CMH that its plan to outsource work and eliminate rights and benefits of

employees was not acceptable.

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There will be ajoint membership meetingthis Sunday, March 17, 12:00 noon, at the Graphic

Communications Conference / Teamsters District Council 3, 11420 E. Nine Mile Rd., Warren, MI (just West o

Hoover Road). Be sure to attend this meeting to learn more about the first bargaining with 21st CMH and our

continuing efforts to protect jobs and get good contracts.