YP Southeast Advertising and Publishing LLC Bargaining Report #3

The Union and the Company met on Friday July 13th and Monday July 16th to pass proposals. The majority of the proposals passed by the company were eliminating language that may not be applicable in our current working environment. We will carefully dissect each of these proposals.

The company also passed a proposal to eliminate termination pay due to performance for sales titles as well as a proposal with significant changes to the current surplus language. Part of the company proposed surplus language included “surplus by productivity”. We discussed these proposals as a bargaining team and will continue to do so in great detail to ensure our members are treated fairly.

The company also presented a high level overview of their sales compensation plan. This compensation plan has not been proposed by the company as of yet, but discussed at a broad level.

The Union presented proposals on market draws, market assignment dates, BOTS adjustments, MAR catastrophic loss, Premise catastrophic loss, continuity of contact, alternate dates for the 80% point of the campaign, 10 day grace period for New Connect assignment, adjusted accounts in each channel year 2, known losses, INET BOTS adjustment, INET opt-out BOTS/NISD/Commissions, office code, year 2 non-billing sales assignment, BOTS for early down INET, 5523 assignment, investigatory language.

The parties recessed to study the proposals and will meet again on Tuesday 7/24 to pass more proposals and continue discussing the existing proposals.