Posts Tagged newspapers
Turning Down Home Depot’s Desired Abatement
Posted by Roldo Bartimole in Economic Development on August 6, 2009
August 6, 2009… Enough! This is how cities should greet greedy, hands-out corporate interests that want to play off one city against the other. Home Depot doesn’t deserve welfare.
Let’s stop the incessant bailout of big business.
Check it out from the Toledo Blade… click here.
I say end Corporate Welfare, as we know it.
Plain Dealer Wants $5 Million in Savings from 3 Unions
Posted by Roldo Bartimole in Media on May 8, 2009
May 7, 2009, add update… The cutbacks at The Plain Dealer will include Teamsters and Pressmen in addition to editorial staff.
The total the PD management wants to attain: $5 million a year in savings from the three unions.
I’m told that the editorial people would consider taking cutbacks to make up the 12 percent that management wants to save… if management would promise no layoffs for two years. No deal, said management.
Here, by the way, is the pay schedule of editorial employees: http://www.tnglocal1.org/wagesnew.pdf