Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Bee Guild approves vacation burndown proposed by management

From the Bee Guild's web site:

Sacramento Guild members overwhelmingly approved management’s proposed vacation burn-down plan in today’s vote: 86 percent voted yes, to support the company plan; 14 percent voted no.


Guild leaders are informing the company of the decision, and we expect the company to make its own announcement by tomorrow. As management has stated previously, the company expects to launch the vacation burn-down plan “immediately” upon results of the vote, and it will affect all Sacramento Bee employees, whether represented by the Guild or not.


The decision means Sacramento Bee employees must use excess vacation time by the end of this calendar year, according to the previously published terms, and will not be furloughed for now. The company, however, would not commit to taking furloughs out of the mix as a future cost-saving tool, though it has said conducting furloughs in addition to a vacation burn-down would be logistically difficult.


Looks like a win-win for corporate. McClatchy benefits by (a) clearing vacation liabilities off the books, and (b) reserving the ability to mandate furloughs later if conditions worsen.

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

The company, however, would not commit to taking furloughs out of the mix as a future cost-saving tool, though it has said conducting furloughs in addition to a vacation burn-down would be logistically difficult.

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Which is a crock of shit. They're going to complete the burn down and as soon as it is over, Fop! Damn, so sorry folks, we have to lay 10% of you off.

Anonymous said...

The spineless guild really had no choice. Why do these zomboids still pay dues? Breaking news: newspaper guilds today are worthless.

Anonymous said...

OK, Beeboys and Beegirls, go burn your vacation hours and hurry back so we can kickoff Furlough Fridays, to be followed by Holiday Staff Slashin' Week. Ya'll enjoy burnin those vacation days, so we don't have to pay ya'll big vacation accrual checks when we boot your butts out the door. Nuthin' personal, just our way of sayin' we need to show a profit.

Anonymous said...

I hear that the mail room has free boxes so you can begin clearing out your desks now. That'll save time when you come back from vacation and your finger doesn't work in the KRONOS system...CAUSE YOU'VE BEEN REMOVED FROM THE SYSTEM!!! BWAHHHAHAHAHAH

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