Contract Trivia: Holiday Pay

Congratulations to New York member Paul Curtis, today’s winner of our 2023 trivia contest and a $50 prize. Paul was one of a handful of IAPE members with the correct answer to last week’s question about introductory pay tiers, and knew that there are 16 different Tier levels listed in the IAPE/DJ Job Description Document – eleven non-IT tiers (1-10 plus a separate tier for reporters) and five tiers for technology titles. (see the  2022-23 Job Descriptions, Tiers and Minimum Pay Scales document).

(We also would have accepted a guess of 17 tiers, because a new IT Tier 3A entry was added earlier this year. It has not yet been included in the Tier document.)

It’s the Friday before the Memorial Day long weekend—except for IAPE members in Canada, where it’s the Friday after the Victoria Day long weekend—and we hope everyone has a safe and happy three-day break. In an organization like Dow Jones, someone is always going to be required to work on a holiday—and that’s when it’s helpful to know the answer to this week’s contract trivia question:

At what point during work required on a contract holiday must the company increase Holiday Pay from 1.5X pay to 2X pay?

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.