Contract Trivia: Vacation Sale

Congratulations to New York member Matthew Riva, today’s winner of our 2023 trivia contest and a $50 prize. Matthew’s entry was selected from several correct responses to last week’s question about vacation time: full-time employees must attain six years of service in order to attain five weeks of paid vacation time (see Article IX - Vacations, Section B).

We’re going to stick with the vacation section of our contract for this week’s question. We fully recognize that some people, for whatever reason, just are not able to use all their vacation time during a calendar year. And while most members who find themselves in that situation simply lose their time at the end of the year, there is a small segment of the IAPE membership who have the ability to sell one week of vacation time back to Dow Jones.

Which two qualifications must an IAPE-represented employee meet in order to have a contractual right to sell a week of vacation time back to Dow Jones & Company?

Think you know? Email your response to union@iape1096.org. Not sure? Scroll through our contract posted on the IAPE website to find the relevant section. Members in good standing* will have until Thursday at midnight to find the answer within the current collective agreement between IAPE and Dow Jones, and email that answer back to us. Next Friday, one winner will be selected at random from all the correct responses, and that winning member will receive a $50 prize from IAPE.

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*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 prize every thirty days.