Cash Cow Contest and [BN] Blitz
Wednesday, September 20, 2017 by The Guild
9.5.17 – As fall approaches, two major efforts are launching that affect Guild members. One is a new Cash Cow Contest to solicit money-making ideas from non-management News employees. The other is a new [BN] Blitz product being launched by newsroom management, which poses serious concerns for the Guild.
The Cash Cow Contest is a collaborative, employee-empowering effort between the Guild and The News. If you haven’t already received information on this, you will soon. Quite simply, we all recognize that The News cannot cut its way to long-term financial health, and management does not have all the answers to what new, innovative ideas and products can boost the company’s profitability. Without new revenue-generating ideas for products and services, and new ways to grow print and digital subscriptions, the Guild will continue to lose members and face a steeper uphill fight to protect wages and benefits.
We believe many employees have great ideas that could help build the company’s financial strength. The contest is designed to leverage the ideas of hundreds of rank-and-file employees, instead of just a handful from top management, and make sure they come to the attention of the publisher and other top executive team members.
Wednesday, September 20, 2017 by The Guild
Guild members and their families and pets participated in the annual WNY AFL-CIO Labor Day Parade on Monday, Sept. 4, 2017. They marched through South Buffalo, then joined their fellow union members in a picnic at Cazenovia Park. News Photographer Sharon Cantillon shot the parade and Reporter Mark Sommer covered the event for the News.
Friday, August 11, 2017 by The Guild
8.7.17 – The Guild reached an agreement last month with management at The News for editorial jurisdiction at The Hamburg Sun. At a time when the Guild is seeing a loss in members, particularly with the sad departure of our colleagues in Classified, this agreement represents a rare bright spot.
“Though this may only lead initially to the hire of a couple of part-time reporters at The Sun, this deal reflects a meeting of the minds between The News and the Guild to safeguard the journalistic integrity of any newspaper launched or relaunched by The News,” said President Sandy Tan.
The Sun is a relatively new startup with some circumstances unique to a weekly newspaper, so the Guild formed a subcommittee that spent weeks working to shape an agreement that would give managers the flexibility they said they need to stay financial viable while still carving out exclusive jurisdiction terms.
Among the highlights of the news agreement:
Monday, July 17, 2017 by The Guild
On Wednesday, July 19 at 12 p.m. and 5 p.m., the Guild will hold its next quarterly membership meeting in the News Auditorium. Come for the food — we’ll have pizza and salad at both meetings — and stay for important news about the Guild’s work, its growth and the company’s plans for the building.
At the 5 p.m. meeting, financial advisor Len Picone will be on hand to give members pointers on managing their money in tricky economic times. Both meetings will offer a good chance to catch up on what the Guild’s has been up to since the contract was settled, and the work that lies ahead.
We hope to see you there.
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- Tan succeeds Davis as Guild president
- Guild executive committee minutes: Wednesday, May 17, 2017
- Guild executive committee minutes: Tuesday, April 4, 2017
- Buffalo hosted national meeting of Multi-District Council members
- CWA convention delegates take stand on press freedom
- District manager stewards needed
- Loss of Classified Advertising department brought mixed emotions
- Join the Labor Day Parade
