Anonymous@10:56 last night offers intriguing speculation about how many jobs President Bob Dickey expects to eliminate from the 82-paper U.S. newspaper division in the year ahead.
Sounding like someone in the know, the author guesses that as many as 20 papers will shutter their presses, and outsource the work to other shops. That's far more than the eight Dickey spoke of last month. 10:56 p.m.'s comment continues:
"My guess is that someone in the Crystal Palace has a site map up on the wall in the office that's color-coded with the highest payroll (plus) per copy printed in quartiles. The first quartile with the highest overall costs are all on the list. If you have an on-site this year, and you're still printing in your own building, you can be sure that a sliver of the visit will be carved out for executives to meet with the daily 40 miles down the road."
What's all this mean for the pension plan? Read the rest of the comment here.
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Saturday, January 09, 2010
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You are probably right, there will be closing of presses. But of course there would be an equal number of increases at other sites who starting printing for non Gannett papers.
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