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LOCAL NEWS Bargaining Update No. 15 General Membership Meeting of the Council’s Affiliated Unions Ratification of Memorandum of Agreement Regarding Medical Plans and Pay Cycle, Sunday, September 14, 2008, 2:00 p.m. ILWU, Local 142, 451 Atkinson Drive
Bargaining Update No. 14 Tentative health insurance agreement reached Six unions representing Honolulu Advertiser employees today reached a tentative agreement with the company that will allow employees to retain nearly all current medical benefits for the indefinite future. The agreement also will allow the company to switch to a biweekly pay plan.
Ads lambaste Advertiser management Publisher offers to open books to an accountant of the union's choice Unionized employees of the Honolulu Advertiser are advertising against the paper, turning up the heat in more than year-old contract talks that continued yesterday.
Advertiser Bargaining Update No. 13 Company pleads poverty, offers to show books Responding to a company announcement that it is losing money, the six unions representing Honolulu Advertiser employees said they are willing to cooperate with company officials to help solve financial problems at the paper.
Advertiser to lay off 27 as it consolidates divisions The Honolulu Advertiser is cutting 27 additional jobs as it consolidates Pacific Media Publications into its main operation, bringing the total number of job cuts announced since July to 81. Nationally, Virginia-based Gannett Co. Inc., which owns the Advertiser, recently announced 1,000 job cuts, citing the economic downturn and continuing losses in advertising revenue.
Honolulu Advertiser union members are once again withholding writing their voluntary blogs in a sign of unity as contract negotiations resume on Monday, Aug. 25.
Hawaii economy sturdy, experts say The recent spate of airline bankruptcies and employee layoffs has been shocking for the state, but doesn't signal a steep downturn in the economy. |
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NEWS OF THE INDUSTRY Pruitt steps down from McClatchy family stock trusts Gary Pruitt, The McClatchy Co. chairman and CEO, has stepped down from four family trusts that control 80% of the voting stock in the nation's third-largest newspaper chain, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing late Friday. Legal maneuvering continues between Blethen and Guild The back-and-forth filings between Blethen Maine Newspapers Inc. and the Portland Newspaper Guild continued this week in federal court. |
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MORE NEWS OF THE INDUSTRY NYT Co. newsroom merge in Florida leads to staff cuts The Gainesville Sun and Ocala Star-Banner, two New York Times Co. newspapers in Florida that announced last month that they will share resources, will also be shedding some staffers.
When the news broke, when clarity mattered most to the nearly 32,800 people working in Gannett’s newspaper division, the announced elimination of 1,000 jobs came not from its eighty-four Local Information Centers but from a blog run by a man vacationing off the coast of Spain.
The Oklahoman to cut 150 jobs, most through buyouts The Oklahoman of Oklahoma City plans to cut 150 jobs through early retirements and layoffs, the newspaper reported Thursday, adding that the cuts are part of new "cost-cutting measures."
WSJ engages NYT on the luxury battlefield Yes, the rich are different. They may disproportionately affect which national newspaper "wins," as the Wall Street Journal increasingly targets the New York Times' readership and advertising dollars.
In $135 million deal, Gannett takes controlling stake in CareerBuilder Tribune Co. has sold a big part of its stake in CareerBuilder to Gannett Co., the companies announced Wednesday. The purchase gives Gannett a controlling 50.8% interest in the jobs site.
Slumber party at the Union-Tribune At least 20 staffers spent last night sleeping in the lobby of the San Diego Union-Tribune’s Mission Valley headquarters, determined not to miss their chance to take what are expected to be the final buyouts while the paper’s publisher, Copley Press, explores a sale.
The high price of skinflint journalism The idea of splitting news coverage among the three principal newspapers in south Florida is journalistically and commercially dangerous.
Palin video gives local 'all-platform' reporting meaning Well now, all-platform reporters are all the rage. CNN's among the most prominent of news companies claiming the turf.
Media Group: Drop charges against journalists arrested at GOP convention Free Press -- the national, nonpartisan media reform group -- called today for St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman and local law-enforcement officials to drop all charges against all journalists arrested while covering protests outside the Republican National Convention.
San Juan Star shuts down after nearly 50 years The San Juan Star, Puerto Rico's Pulitzer Prize-winning English-language newspaper, closed Friday, the owner said, blaming the union for not agreeing to benefit cuts and layoffs to offset declining revenue.
Buyouts announced at San Diego Union-Trib The San Diego Union-Tribune on Thursday announced buyouts that aim to cut its staff by 76 positions, including 30 in the newsroom.
Group interested in Blethen Maine newspapers gives up exclusive negotiating rights An investment group that has been in discussions to buy Blethen Maine Newspapers no longer has exclusive negotiating rights. |
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