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Negotiation Bulletins
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19 Feb 2010
Bulletin No. 3
MIAMI, Feb. 19, 2010 – The News Media Guild pressed for fairness in the way the EFE News Service administers medical insurance premium payments as contract talks continued Friday.
The Guild said EFE should pay the same amount per worker for the U.S. medical plan, saying U.S. employees are treated less favorably than workers hired by the news agency in Madrid.
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12 Feb 2010
MIAMI, Feb. 12, 2010 – The EFE News Service made its opening proposal in contract talks with the News Media Guild this week, saying it was willing to discuss some changes to the way wages are calculated, but the agency proposed continuing salaries at current levels.
The company said that EFE, the world’s largest Spanish-language news agency, is still dealing with the effects of the global market crisis from last year.
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10 Mar 2009
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07 Feb 2009
The News Media Guild and the Associated Press reached tentative agreement early Saturday morning on a two-year contract that includes a 2 percent across-the-board wage increase effective March 2 and a $500 lump sum payment effective Dec. 1, 2009, plus improved job security provisions.
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23 Jan 2009
The News Media Guild and The Associated Press reached tentative agreement Wednesday on a new sick leave policy. The text is linked below.
EU-TU Sick Leave, Article 26, Tentative Agreement
Members are reminded that “tentative" agreements are just that – they are contingent upon total overall agreement that is then submitted to the membership for a vote.
