The agency can take a number of steps with a credible charge of unfair labor practices, including seeking an injunction against a company from a judge, dismissing the charge or advancing it to an administrative trial.Ĭompany management can cite “economic exigency” to avoid negotiating a change in working conditions with a union. The NLRB is a federal agency tasked with protecting employees’ rights. A Wyoming Tribune-Eagle newspaper dispenser outside a Laramie gas station. The workers were given short notice of an “impromptu conference call,” the union wrote in its press release, and had to scramble to get their union representative onto the call. The union’s lawyers are also accusing APG of dealing directly with union employees and not with union representation.
“The Employer failed and refused to bargain in good faith with the union as the collective bargaining representative of its employees by making unilateral changes in terms and conditions of employment,” the charges filed with the National Labor Relations Board on Aug. The union contends the decision, which was made without renegotiating with the union, was illegal. The company told employees they would be at 30-hour work weeks until “at least September,” at which point they might move to 35 hour workweeks, according to the press release. 5, APG reneged on the deal, according to a press release issued on Twitter by the News Guild. On July 31, management told the newsroom they would be returning to 40-hour weeks on Aug. WyoFile did not receive a response to a voicemail left with an APG human resources executive or to a voicemail and email to Rory Palm, APG’s regional president in Wyoming. “It’s been a complete struggle and virtually none of us had success so far,” he said. Workers have found themselves ineligible for unemployment insurance, and been unable to make up their lost wages, Coulter said.
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The company did not budge, but did agree to set a date on when the seven union members could return to working full weeks. Such rotating furloughs would better allow the newsroom to cover events in the city, and also allow workers to make up lost income with unemployment insurance, Tom Coulter, the Tribune Eagle’s state government reporter and a co-chair of the Cheyenne News Guild, said. The workers had attempted to negotiate week-long furloughs on a rotating schedule, as employees of other newspapers, like the Lee-Enterprises-owned Casper Star-Tribune did. Securing the expiration date for the union members - which includes the reporters covering the state’s capital city as well as other newsroom employees - was management’s chief concession in the negotiations, two members told WyoFile. Company executives made the reductions as newspapers statewide and nationally lost advertising revenue to pandemic-related economic declines, even as the demand for news increased.Īt the Tribune Eagle, members of the Cheyenne News Guild negotiated with the company to set an expiration date for the 30-hour work weeks at the end of July. Since late March, employees at those newspapers have been limited to 30 paid hours of work per week.
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