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BANG UPDATE Negotiators gather for first contract push Unit meets Saturday in Walnut Creek Securing our first contract is the guild's top priority, what we worked to achieve during those tense months of organizing at BANG-East Bay. So don't cheat yourself by not attending our next meeting on Saturday, when we will present our slate of bargaining committee members. Our committee will represent you at the bargaining table -- it only makes sense to be part of voting them in.
National Writers Union backs East Bay workers Statement of support for Media Workers Guild from UAW Local 1981 In a statment of solidarity, the National Writers Union protested the layoff of 29 newly organized BANG-EB newsroom employees, demanded justice be done by the NLRB, and promised to lend "any and all available resources to support our Guild brothers and sisters, including resisting any attempt by BANG-EB or MediaNews Group to use freelance and staff journalists as clubs against each other."
FUTURE OF NEWSPAPERS Reflections of a former film critic No easy adjustment to life on the outside This March I left my job as a film critic for the Bay Area-based Contra Costa Times, Oakland Tribune and San Jose Mercury News. Along with 101 colleagues, I took a buyout. It was a clear and obvious choice... Not so obvious: why the steady decline in the amount of locally generated criticism in daily newspapers.
BANG UPDATE MediaNews left no choice but to file NLRB charges Firings and pay freeze to punish union organizers We view filing charges of unfair labor practices as a very serious move, and one we had all hoped to avoid at our new BANG-EB Unit. We believe our energy is best spent looking forward. We remain committed to working with our managers to discover new business models, promote quality journalism and secure a contract for our newsroom workers. But given the company's actions, we had no choice but to file a ULP.
NEWS RELEASE Guild asks NLRB to investigate BANG-EB layoffs Steffens: 'I think they wanted me out of the newsroom' The Northern California Media Workers Guild filed unfair labor practice charges Tuesday to protest last Friday's retaliatory firings of organizers and other anti-union actions against the newly formed Bay Area News Group-East Bay unit of the Guild.The union's charges were filed in connection with the layoff of 29 members of the 230-member BANG-EB bargaining unit, which includes the Contra Costa Times and the Oakland Tribune. Among those targeted was Sara Steffens, newly elected chair of the unit and the main Guild organizer in the Walnut Creek newsroom of BANG-EB. |
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NEWS OF THE INDUSTRY
New York Times Co.'s second-quarter earnings fell 82 percent from a year ago, when it saw a one-time gain from the sale of a unit, but print advertising continued to shrink and pulled down operating income, the publisher said Wednesday. Cuts needed, Tribune's Zell says, 'so we can survive' Real estate mogul Sam Zell, who took control of media giant Tribune Co. about six months ago, defended yesterday the staffing and page cuts under way at The Sun and its other newspapers as necessary in the worst advertising climate in decades. As papers struggle, news is cut and the focus turns local Almost two-thirds of American newspapers publish less foreign news than they did just three years ago, nearly as many print less national news, and despite new demands on newsrooms like blogs and video, most of them have smaller news staffs, according to a new study. Advertiser workers protest layoffs Dozens of Honolulu Advertiser workers held signs and rallied on the sidewalk in front of their offices on Kapiolani Boulevard at noon yesterday over the unexpected layoffs of 54 employees. The new single-digit newspaper stock Is this the Big Board, or the Dollar Store? Nearly all newspaper stock prices have shrunk to the single-figure level Two events on the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday seemed to sum up the woeful state of publicly traded newspaper companies. Sun-Sentinel cutting news staff 20% -- but not reporting it Just days after The Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel admitted it was cutting 20% of news staff but not reporting it, The Sun-Sentinel of Fort Lauderdale, another Tribune paper, revealed it was reducing staff under a similar plan. Allentown paper to cut 35-40 jobs, close bureaus -- redesign coming The Allentown Morning-Call is the latest paper to release information about Tribune-mandated job cuts and redesign of the daily. |
After layoffs: Newspapers get smaller, Pew study finds U.S. daily newspapers aren't shrinking just their newsrooms, an extensive study released Monday finds. Stories, page count, sections, international and national news are all smaller, too -- and only a minority of editors think online journalism will save their papers.
FUTURE OF NEWSPAPERS 'Save the Sun' A photojournalist's blog in Baltimore reads like an obit may be next for one of this nation's proudest dailies: "Dressed in black, nearly 200 people gathered outside The Baltimore Sun Thursday to protest 100 job cuts at the company. The rally was a show of force that will not affect the outcome of events to come, but that leaders hope demonstrated to the community what it is losing." |
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