Word: guildsmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is talking in Los Angeles, but not much. "We're a helluva long way from anything yet," says a Guild spokesman. Aggrieved that they are paid one of the lowest minimums of any sizable paper in the country ($174.80 a week after five years), Guildsmen seek a $25.20-a-week raise over two years. Management has offered $13 over the same period. The longer the strike drags on, the more nonunion personnel the Herald-Examiner hires to put out the paper. It is not much different from the usual one. It skimps on local news, runs...
...World Journal Tribune last week, New York's two-month-old newspaper strike seemed to have taken a long stride toward settlement. But there was many an acrimonious argument left to be resolved. And the Guild negotiators were obviously in no hurry to call a general meeting where Guildsmen would ratify the "package" that had been so laboriously worked...
...circulation of the new papers do not come up to expectation. Still, everyone agrees that the biggest hurdle was the Guild strike, and that has been all but settled. Pay, fringe benefits, Guild security have all been worked out. And the publishers have agreed to find jobs for 990 Guildsmen-94 more than they originally wanted. Some 500 Guild members have taken their severance pay and retired voluntarily in the dreary months since the strike started, so only 290 out of the combined staffs of 1,780 will be dismissed...
...biggest remaining argument was between the publishers and the Newspaper Guild, which seemed more interested in getting its way than in getting its people back to work. What its leaders want is a hiring policy based on seniority in the strictest sense-meaning that all Guildsmen on all three merged papers would be ranked by time on the job. Women's-page reporters, sportswriters, political specialists would be mixed on the same list, and the roster of those hired would start...
...Reading Habit. Convinced that this was no way to put together three separate, qualified staffs-that too many valuable but junior reporters would be lost in the shuffle and that the morning Herald Tribune might well lose its identity-the editors demurred. Let us rank Guildsmen in groups of specialties, the editors asked. Hiring could then be done by seniority in each group. This time the Guild demurred. All that the mediators could do was to send each side home to work out counterproposals. That still left the problem of deciding on the "dingleberries"-the employees who would be exempt...