This week saw the conclusion of negotations with the employers who are part of the Art Studios and Directories Agreement, namley Yell and Pindarset Studios, producing adverts for Yellow Pages directories.
Details of the agreement are being sent to members with a ballot to follow.
The agreement provides for a cash increase worth 4.2% on basic rates with most members getting an increase, if it goes through of £15.00 per week.
The directories sector is going through tough times, as move advertisers switch to electronic media - so our negotiating panel consisting of lay reps and full time officers are recommending the deal.
About Tony Burke
Tony Burke is an Assistant General Secretary at the UK and Ireland's biggest trade union, Unite the Union.
Unite was formed on 1st May, 2007 by a merger of Amicus and TGWU. He heads up the Unite GPM sector, leading a team of experienced full time National and Regional Officers covering the Print, Paper, Packaging, Newspapers, Publishing and Media industries.
Tony was Deputy General Secretary of the print, paper and media union the GPMU until it merged, with the skills and professional union Amicus in 2004. Tony is a member of the General Council and Executive Committee of the TUC and also a number of senior committee’s of the global union Union Network International (UNI) Graphical; a member of the Executive Committee of the European Chemical, Energy and Mineworkers Federation; the chair of the TUC's Organising Academy Board; a member of the board of Vision In Print And Packaging and a trade union appointed member of the board of COGENT - the sector skills council for the Chemical, Oil, Pharmaceutical, Energy and Nuclear Industries. He is also a member of the Board Of Management of The Peoples Press Printing Society.
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