by Bailey Rookard Ring, ring. Ring, ring. It was Valentine’s Day and I was itching to drop the L-word. What if he picks up? What if he doesn’t? All my carefully constructed conversational points flew out of my head and … Continue reading
2/14/13: Cook County Pension Across Illinois, state employees are facing increasing pressure to dramatically change their pension benefit. The Cook County Court Interpreters are facing the potential for serious changes to their pension plan. There has been a lot of … Continue reading
The Company also communicated to the Guild that all EAs and copy editors from all of its properties would now be required to work at the downtown Sun-Times location. The Guild’s Executive Director, Craig Rosenbaum, believes that forcing EAs and … Continue reading
On Thursday, Feb. 7, the Guild and the Company met for the second full negotiating session since Jim Kirk announced plans to consolidate company operations in downtown Chicago. At the session, Guild negotiators delivered a revised contract proposal, written in … Continue reading
The Company was not prepared to negotiate about moving business writers out of the Sun-Times Unit to the Grid publication. Representatives from the Sun-Times said it intended to do so although the date is not clear when the move will … Continue reading
By Jackie Kawalski Before making the huge, costly mistake of consolidating newspapers, consider demographics. Joliet residents do not consider themselves suburbanites. Joliet is a city, not a suburb of Chicago and Jolietans are not Chicagoans. The Joliet Herald-News has been … Continue reading
The Sun-Times is now not only taking the position that it wants exclusive jurisdiction over Guild jobs, but are now actually moving Guild activists out of the bargaining unit. In a letter to the Company dated January 31, 2013, the … Continue reading
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