Anyone up for breaking a strike?

I believe so, and if they are they are one of the unions that have tentatively agreed to a deal.

 

Figures.

Talk about union dead weight . . .

 

Is there a distinction drawn between someone who isn't buying into the work his own union is doing and returns to his own job -- and someone who would step into a position such as this or Youngstown?
Just curious about the opinions on that.

 

E&P has something up.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003494149

The Guild sent out an e-mail telling people to clean out their desks.
After reading this though, I'm left wondering what the ultimate goal is, shutting the Daily News down?
"If we are going to be forced to strike, the goal is to inflict economic harm on the employer. Right now, looking at the company's position, I would say a strike today is possible, a strike tomorrow is more possible."
--Stu Bykofsky, Guild leader

 

This is a huge mistake. The union is assasinating the careers of every single Daily News staffer. Over a pension dispute? Fools.

 

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal mediator involved in contract talks at Philadelphia’s two largest newspapers wants to bring negotiators back to the bargaining table on Monday, after discussions stalled over a proposal to freeze pensions. <cm-bd>¶
A spokesman for The Newspaper Guild of Greater Philadelphia said strike preparations, which were revived after talks broke off Wednesday night, will be put on hold until Monday. The union represents more than 900 editorial, circulation, advertising and clerical workers at The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News. <cm-bd>¶

 

Don't know how accurate that assessment is seeing as though Bykofsky is a Daily News guy

 

It might not be an assassination, but a strike is most assuredly a huge gamble. The same company owns both papers, and the Daily News' circulation is down to 112,000 and plummeting. If the owners takes a big financial hit from a strike, they can cut the losses by killing the smaller paper and they'd still have the dominant paper in a major market. What are the chances of that happening? I'd say good enough to make a strike a very dangerous option.

 

Are you guys saying the Daily News is a money loser?

No one's ever backed that assertion up. For a handful of old-timers, I bet that's the paper they read -- and that's the only paper they read. They probably wouldn't read the Inky if you delivered it to them free every morning and had the carrier drop it off in front of their bedroom door.

 

That's hard to say. DNers say it's profitable. But that's because it is propped up by the Inky. There were four dailies in Philly in the early 1980s, two died, and the Bulletin was bigger than the Daily News. If not for being owned by KR with the Inky, no doubt the DN would have died then.

 

Well, yes, it does benefit from a JOA-style setup. But that's not just a Philly thing.

 

It's not a JOA-type setup, though. Unlike in a JOA, KR did everything it could to make the Daily News succeed, including having it move to AM publication rather than ensure its death by leaving it as a PM.