YP Holdings Bargaining Report #21

The Union and Company met on Tuesday, December 17, 2013, and again today, December 18, 2013, in an attempt to reach a tentative agreement.
We were unable to reach a tentative agreement.  The Union has rejected what the Company is calling their final proposal.  The Company’s proposal of December 7, 2013, contained too many retrogressive proposals that would leave the bargaining unit with very limited rights. 
The final proposal included base pay cuts for Telemarketing Administrators in Direct Mail and CXG, and a new compensation plan which allows the company to make changes up or down, a new compensation plan for Senior Account Representatives, Account Representatives and Sales Representatives, which allows the company to make changes to the compensation plan up or down, a new compensation plan for Cyber Representatives, which also allows the company to make changes up or down, gutting long standing language in Article 26, which includes the ability to change the way assignments are handled today, having the ability to restrict what the Representatives can sell and not paying full commissions up front, “cash is king”!!!  Change language in Article 17 and Article 18.  The proposal included adding New Media Representatives to the contract with a travel requirement. 
The company proposal also includes Management Rights that would allow the company to do whatever they wanted, Contracting Out Work letter that would allow the company to contract out your work, Post-Retirement HealthCare, which means no healthcare for eligible retirees as of the date of the new contract, the ability to move bargaining unit employees to the management Healthcare plan in the third year of the contract and allows the company to make changes to the plan which includes terminating it.
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