The Newspaper Guild has also expressed interest in buying them.

The new business entity has no contract with the Newspaper Guild because the talks failed over the issue of job security.

Her mother was a member of the Newspaper Guild.

But the final blow came from a strike by the Newspaper Guild and other unions that lasted nearly a year.

Some eight producers at nytimes.com who are members of the Newspaper Guild are likely to be laid off, they said.

The identities of the other 86, who are in positions covered by the Newspaper Guild, is not yet certain, and the numbers remain somewhat fluid.

Another union, the Newspaper Guild, agreed to keep working even though it had not reached an accord.

The paper's management and union, the Newspaper Guild, said they expected striking employees to return to work early next week.

But his proposal would take a much lighter hand with the Newspaper Guild, which represents the paper's news and advertising employees.

The company has done this in the last two rounds of bargaining with the Newspaper Guild.