Posted on 06/01/2007 6:14:38 AM PDT by abb
IT WAS an agonizing nine months for all involved, but the long and contentious dispute between The Blade and its unions is finally over, and our managers and returning employees can once again pool their talents in the joint enterprise they love: producing the best daily newspaper they can.
Our new labor contracts reflect that our business is much different from the one many of us knew years ago, and we are grateful that our employee organizations came to accept the unavoidable.
All of us were frustrated by the dictates of that new reality, and saddened that lockouts and layoffs of associates were required. Our employees had to swallow hard and accept pay cuts, a slightly longer work week, and a commission-based pay schedule for our advertising sales people.
Painful as the changes are, they are all essential steps if the newspaper is to return to profitability. When that day comes, the contracts provide that the employees share in those gains.
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Crank up the violins...time for a serenade!
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
“All of us were frustrated by the dictates of that new reality, and saddened that lockouts and layoffs of associates were required. Our employees had to swallow hard and accept pay cuts, a slightly longer work week, and a commission-based pay schedule for our advertising sales people.”
“Painful as the changes are, they are all essential steps if the newspaper is to return to profitability. When that day comes, the contracts provide that the employees share in those gains.”
The survivors will continue to lie and po any republican who can read. So their subscriptions and ad $’s will continue to drop, and then there will be more staff cuts.
Toledo Blad should become one of those “free” newspapers you find in restaurants and hotels. No more fussy circulation numbers to worry about...
Good restaurants would ban this trash. Even as a freebie, just the headlines would lower the appetites of most of us.
” When that day comes...”
never ?
What’s good to eat in Toledo ?
I have never eaten in Toledo.
I have left restaurants in N California with stacks of free left wing fishwraps by the front door and inside by the hostess’s stands.
Einstein’s definition of insanity is proved every day by the Dinosaur Fishwrap controllers and ABCNNBCBS maggots in charge.
What’s the good news?
I understand the ‘free market of ideas’ is dependent on the laws of supply and demand, but what’s the alternative if and when the independent Toledo Blade folds?
Tony Pacos (sp?) MASH’s Klinger made it famous. Great Hungarian food.
Packos is good but I wouldn’t make a special trip to “little Detroit” just to eat there.
I grew up about 70 miles west of Toledo in Hillsdale, MI. It was a big town to us country boys. Back then you had to be 21 to drink in MI and only 18 in Ohio (3.2 Beer). Before I went into the Army in 61, a bunch of us went to the Town Hall. It was an authentic Burlesque with real Vaudeville type acts. I figured I was ready for the world after that.
It's changed.
Union rank-and-file ought to get some payback by using work slowdowns to stick it to the man.
Of course there is Ottawa Hills. My Mom was from Edon, Oh, and she was a live in maid for a couple big names back in the 30s. Longneckers and Pictons, IIRC.
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