Word: guildsmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he is being more realistic, Murphy admits to understanding that many Guildsmen are going to have to go. Powers, too, has warned his union that many of them will be out of work as a result of the merger. Eventually, negotiations will boil down to how much severance pay the dismissed employees will receive. Murphy insists that the ceiling of 60 weeks' pay for 30 years' employment must be raised. Whatever the final compromise, the publishers will have to pay a handsome price for dropping any sizable number of staffers. Last week the New York Publishers Association...
Jobs in Scant Supply. Tom Murphy's New York Newspaper Guildsmen, who stand to lose the most jobs, will have the hardest time finding new work because editorial jobs are in scant supply around New York. But firings are imminent once a solution is found to knotty problems of jurisdiction and seniority. In anticipation of the merger, Murphy held up negotiations for new contracts, even though the old ones ran out last spring. The craft unions, all of which have contracts with the merging papers, claim that they are under no obligation to the new ones...
...more, though, both the weary antagonists were quick to accede to Mayor Robert Wagner's suggestion that they change their minds, agree with Kheel, and go back to work. At week's end, all that remained to be done was for the Times's Guildsmen to meet and formally ratify the proposals...
...labor-relations department was in sad disarray; it would have to be revamped before it could deal intelligently with the difficulties ahead. Beyond all that, there was the more immediate problem of making up lost advertising revenue and winning back lost readers. And despite their strike benefits, the Guildsmen would be a long time making up what they lost in three weeks without a paycheck...
...other members of the Publishers Association shut down in sympathy with the Times, New York was left with only the afternoon Post and a spate of third-rate, strike-born tabloids, all inconsequential. Nor do the local radio and TV stations, which have hired some 40 striking Guildsmen, seem equal to taking up the slack...