Employees of Gannett's 17 U.K. dailies and hundreds of weeklies have been asked to consider reducing their work week by two-and-a-half hours, as an alternative to taking a week's unpaid leave, the Guardian says today: "Alternative suggestions from the rank and file have included staff taking a day's unpaid leave each month, rather than reducing hours or taking a week's unpaid holiday, so as not to burden them financially."[Image: Southern Daily Echo of Southampton, Newseum]
Wisconsin hourly workers had to take 10 hours unpaid this month. Not union shops though. Which blows.
ReplyDeleteAnd that's on top of the freakin' furloughs.
The English have a better head for this kind of thing.
ReplyDeleteDid they ever add any real value to the company other then a fiefdom for Sir Watson?
ReplyDeleteWhy does GCI even OWN newspapers in the UK????????? That makes NO sense. But neither does Rupert Murdoch.
ReplyDeleteRest assured, we in the UK take no pleasure in being owned by an American Corporation that shows so little regard for its employees
ReplyDeleteThe UK papers are immensely profitable in themselves, butlike everything else they were bought at the top of the market and are now declining in value. The level of underinvestment, the poor staffing, the terrible quality of many of the products would, I' sure, shock even many of our American cousins
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