WTH is happening in Pittsburgh?

Wish I could, Lancey. But I've pretty much divorced myself from anything related to the place since we were outsourced.

 

Does anyone know when the P-G/Guild contract is up?

Bargaining ploy, perhaps?

 

A sign of the times.

 

On a comedic note, the site gave me a message that I couldn't see the editorial unless I turned off my ad blocker or put the Post-Gazette on a "white list" for viewing on my computer.

 

This is an important thread. To the suits on here, will the Pittsburgh PD decision soon affect all newsrooms? Are the major companies going to drop the Tuesday edition and the Saturday edition? Print five days a week? We know it's all about $$ and it seems to me the higher ups in corporate would be able to get rid of at least 10 people in every newsroom if they cut two days off the schedule for starters. It'd be an easy way to hack 10 more salaries and benefits.

 

JFC.

 

What he said.

 

Bump ... Publisher goes on Saturday night rant, union wants him barred from newsroom.

The Post-Gazette's publisher 'went berserk in the newsroom.' Now the union wants him barred from the office.

(H/T Reliable Sources newsletter)

 

Here are accounts of the incident.

Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh eyewitness accounts of the incident involving Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Publisher John Robinson Block

 

Everybody needs to read this. This shows you what the suits think of us -- the working class? It makes Fredrick even more upset at himself for working 70 and getting paid for 40 all these years. We take it because it's in our blood. How can John Robinson survive this incident? Half kidding: I bet the paginators got lambasted/reprimanded if the newspaper didn't hit the presses on time despite the rants of the publisher. This is a new one. Putting out a newspaper in the midst of the highest suit's explosive behavior.

 

Must not be too upset since you won't stop doing it.

 

Everyone who got fired should show back up for work the next day like Costanza. The guy won’t even remember it.