It’s Back: IAPE Contract Trivia

Read your contract and win a prize!

With contract negotiations on the horizon, we are bringing back a popular initiative to encourage IAPE members to learn more about our collective agreement with Dow Jones: the IAPE contract trivia contest. The rules are simple: each Friday, we will email a contract question to the IAPE membership. Members in good standing* will have one week to find the answer within the current collective agreement between IAPE and Dow Jones, and email that answer as a reply to the emailed trivia question. The following Friday, one winner will be selected at random from all correct responses, and that winning member will receive a $50 gift card from IAPE.

The winner’s name will be announced upon delivery of the following week’s question.

Here’s our first trivia question for 2023:

Either IAPE or Dow Jones may file a written grievance against the other party when either believes a contract violation has occurred, but the contract contains a deadline for filing that written complaint. How many days after the occurrence of the alleged violation does IAPE or Dow Jones have to deliver that complaint? 

Think you know the answer? Send an email to union@iape1096.org and let us know. Not sure? Scroll through our contract, posted on the IAPE website at https://www.iape1096.org/s/2022-2023-CBA-final.pdf, to find the answer.

Good luck and thanks for playing! If you have suggestions for questions you’d like to see answered, please let us know. And, of course, if you have any suggestions for changes you’d like to see in your next contract, send those along too.

*The IAPE contract trivia question is a weekly contest for members of the IAPE/DJ bargaining unit in the United States and Canada, working under the terms of the collective agreement between Dow Jones & Company Inc. and the Independent Association of Publishers’ Employees (IAPE) TNG/CWA Local 1096, AFL-CIO,CLC, in effect from July 1, 2022 – June 30, 2023. IAPE officers, IAPE directors, IAPE staff, fee-paying non-members and non-members in right-to-work states (or new employees not yet paying dues to IAPE) are not eligible for prizes. Contest period lasts through 11:59 PM Eastern Time each Thursday. On Friday, one winner will be selected from the previous week’s correct answers by a random drawing. Winners are limited to one gift card prize every thirty days.