Hiroshi Nakamura Emerald
State Rep. Kitty Piercy, D-Eugene, urges protesters and calls for preservation of em
ployees’ right to join a union. She was one of the speakers at Monday night’s rally.
Register-Guard staff rallies
to protest lack of contract
■After more than a year
with no contract, employees
have grown weary of
negotiations
By Josh Ryneal
Oregon Daily Emerald
Appearing at a rally Monday for
The Register-Guard’s employee
union, Secretary of State Bill Brad
bury and other state and county of
ficials expressed strong support for
its efforts to obtain a new contract.
Bradbury; state Rep. Kitty Pier
cy, D-Eugene; Lane County Com
missioner Peter Sorenson; and
state Sen. Tony Corcoran, D-Cot
tage Grove, all criticized the pa
per’s management for not re
sponding quickly enough to
employee demands.
Contract negotiations between the
Eugene Newspaper Guild and The
Register-Guard management have
lasted 18 months, and Guild mem
bers believe the management’s hir
ing of L. Michael Zinser, a Nashville
attorney with reputation among la
bor organizers as a “union-buster,”
has created an atmosphere that al
lows for no room for compromise.
Bradbury opened his remarks
by leading the crowd assembled
in front of the paper’s offices in a
chant of “we support the Guild”
and then proceeded to denounce
the paper’s management as “not a
good member of the community. ”
Bradbury said “we are no longer
seeing the direct negotiations that
you need to get this dispute re
solved.”
Management “needs to walk
their talk, and Zinser needs to
walk his talk,” Bradbury said as
the audience cheered loudly.
He then called on the paper’s
management to support “everyone’s
right to organize the workplace. ”
Piercy said “this has been going
on for way too long” and called for
a guarantee from management to
preserve employees’ right to join
unions.
“Workers support families and
kids, and I don’t like to see man
agement not consider the income
that supports these families,”
Sorenson said.
He said that the employees
would have the support of local
government hi their fight for a
new and better contract.
The paper’s management was
unavailable for comment.
Suzi Prozanski, Register-Guard
copy editor and president of the
Guild, said that the rally’s date was
set to coincide with the expiration
of their contract one year ago.
“All we want a fair contract,”
Prozanski said, “but only one or
two paragraphs out of a 110-page
proposal have been settled in a
year and a half.”
Prozanski said that the manage
ment negotiation team, led by
Zinser, has attempted to modify
the employees’ contract to give
more control to the paper’s man
agement and eliminate the Guild’s
ability to bargain.
“They tried to put in three pages
of management language that
would tear down everything the
Guild stands for,” she said.
Lance Robertson, Register
Guard reporter and lead negotia
tor for the Guild, said that it is in
Zinser’s best interest for negotia
tions to dragon.
“We haven’t even gotten to the
issue of wages yet,” he said.
Robertson also said that the man
agement’s proposal contains “an
enormous amount of anti-worker
language,” and would attempt to re
place full-time employees with
part-time ones whenever possible.
The proposal would also pay part
time employees a lesser wage than
that paid to full-time employees.
This proposal “would allow them
to replace anyone, anywhere at the
paper, at any time,” he said.
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