Layoffs at AL.com

Doc Holliday · Mar 9, 2015

If you reside in a right-to-work state, they can fire you with no cause or reason whenever they want. In other words, yeah, you're screwed.

spadjo martin · Mar 9, 2015

I don't know the official reason behind their layoffs/dismissals. I assume they weren't getting enough clicks or posting enough polls to get clicks.

Doc Holliday · Mar 9, 2015

A friend of mine told me for every click they get on his videos, his newspapers make a whopping 8 cents.

FileNotFound · Mar 10, 2015

Batman said: ↑

This might be a dumb question ...
It's becoming pretty well established what a large portion of the newspaper/media business model is these days. "Reorganize" by sacking half the current staff; replace them with young and cheap hires or not at all; do what you can to push out older, more expensive employees; and in 2-3 years repeat the cycle when the cost of retaining people is more expensive than hiring new ones.
This has been Gannett's model for a while now, but it seems to be spreading (as most awful things in journalism do) to other companies.

Given that, is there anything the rank and file can do from a legal standpoint? Lawsuits, NLRB complaints, anything of that nature? If nothing else, something that could throw the fear of God into a few of these companies and make them rethink things? Or are we just plodding along, hoping our number doesn't get called, until someone wakes up and realizes that younger and cheaper doesn't typically mean better?
I suppose it's their company, you don't have to work there, yada, yada, etc., but this is happening at way too many places for it not to be systemic at some level. It's more than just being in a dying industry.
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