Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Teamsters Authorize Strike at Philly Newspapers

We were expecting a lot more buzz about this, but very quietly this morning - like, 3 a.m. this morning - philly.com posted a two-paragraph blurb stating that the Teamsters had authorized a strike against the company that owns The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Daily News and philly.com. These are the content producers or ad folks. The story states that this group includes "delivery drivers, clerks, dispatchers, security guards, and building services personnel."

But the other groups are also bound to have something to say, because management has made it pretty clear they are expecting everyone to sacrifice in order to get the company to profitability and the unions have, at least publicly, shown no appetite for that.

Stay tuned.

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