Posted on 09/18/2009 8:08:44 AM PDT by catnipman
Unionized workers in the Chicago Sun-Times' newsroom have rejected demands for deep pay cuts and work-rule changes, putting at risk a planned sale of the financially struggling newspaper to an investment group.
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Members of the Chicago Newspaper Guild were asked to lock in temporary 15% compensation cuts and agree to wiping out seniority rules and reducing severance guarantees. The union rejected those demands 83-22 Tuesday.
Sun-Times Media Chairman Jeremy Halbreich has told workers that a rejection will mean the end of the company.
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Hahaha! Do it union brothers!!! Hahaha!
This is like the guy who drilled a hole in the bottom of the boat to let the water out quicker.
Putzes.
Wow. Their going to end up like the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. A few people writing for a website, probably not even as “good” (not as in content) as the PI either.
Of that 12%, how many are government employees?
Voting against their own jobs.
Why are unions so stupid? What does it get them in the long run?
They're expecting a bailout from _resident jOker.
Hahaha! Hang tough union brothers and sisters! Shut the paper down! Hahaha!
Bingo! Also, the union higher-ups will make out just fine.
Remember, unions are about power for the “leaders,” not serving their members. Same as with Congress and us...
It’s a perfect display of the ignorance of union members. One can only imagine how their lack of decision making skills affect their daily job.
Soon they will experience the consequences of their actions and realize how coddled they have been when they enter the school of hard knocks.
As a former forced member of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen of North America when I was a supermarket clerk back during my college days, I am laughing my azz off at the stupidity of unions. Rumor has it that when the paper shuts down, Obama is going to hire these union workers as his community enforcement goons in Chicago.
Friends-of-Bam-Bailout-Alert ping
Chain the doors board up the windows! The Leftist filth have murdered another paper with their diseased Socialism.
They don’t get there’s no more blood to drain out of their victims.
Just biding time until the Olympics.
Exactly what did 0 trade away for that bid.
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