This will be a bit of a tough week to blog (in theory, I’m on vacation…ha!!!) but you will get what I can sneak in here. Today, my heart goes out to the journalists at The Boston Globe: Months of labor acrimony at The Boston Globe will come to a head on Monday, when […]
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Tensions Mount at 16th Street
Posted on 19 May 2005.
I have just been given two letters that were sent to John Sweeney yesterday by Federation workers at 16th Street in the wake of the deep cuts announced two weeks ago. Coming soon after the release of the insurgents new proposal, this cannot help John Sweeney try to stem the vibrations coursing through the AFL-CIO […]
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The Day Before the Ax Falls
Posted on 03 May 2005.
Tomorrow, the word will come down on who will lose their jobs in the previously-reported cuts at 16th Street. All managers have been told to be in their offices nationwide and there’s a conference call scheduled tomorrow morning with Sweeney’s executive assistant, Bob Welch. One AFL-CIO staffer just sent me this missive from the Newspaper […]
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Live from Bangalore!
Posted on 10 March 2005.
Welcome to the age of Remote Control Journalism—that’s what Pete Szekely, who is the chairman of the Reuters unit of the Newspaper Guild, calls the news we’re going to get from sources like Reuters. I ran into Pete yesterday. He reminded me of an important development that’s worth updating: Reuters is moving a number of […]
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