Gannett's top brass may not uniformly oppose President Obama, despite his party's less business-friendly reputation. But it's hard to imagine Corporate favors Obama's recess appointment yesterday of union lawyer Craig Becker (left) to the National Labor Relations Board. Republicans had blocked his nomination on grounds he would bring a radical pro-union agenda to the job.The NLRB's duties include settling disputes between employers and union-represented employees, when Gannett's workforce has grown more restive after wage cuts and thousands of layoffs. About 13% of GCI's 30,000 U.S. workers are unionized, down from 20% in 1993. Earlier this month, Corporate announced a new director of labor relations in advance of long-time chief Wendell Van Lare's April 30 retirement.
Earlier: Company-wide employment plunged 16% last year
Unions are a waste and this President is a communist. Can't wait for the November election. This is the most corrupt administration and Congress.
ReplyDeleteThis blog bitches and complains about Gannett's top brass, but all you liberally biased news hacks just voted in the worst, most socilaistic government officails ever.
Are you telling me smart journalists and truckers and pressmen don't know how to negotiate for themselves and they need to hide behind a bunch of thugs!?!
I hope this Gannett Management team does more to throw oit the unions.
Do you know of any Democratic administration that has not appointed a pro-union member to the NLRB. It goes the other way in a Republican administration. So yes, this is going to be the opportunity of a lifetime for newsrooms and other non-union areas in Gannett to organize. I have been quietly lobbying to organize USA Today, even though Virginia is a right-to-work state.
ReplyDeleteA President with guts and total command of the English vocabulary! He's the Boss with the Hot Sauce.
ReplyDelete8:44: Most corrupt administration trophy is still held by Richard Nixon. Give Tricky Dicky his due.
ReplyDeleteWell said, Jim! I concur. Close second: Bush! The last eight years cost us - wouldn't you agree? And by us I don't mean the upper echolon of the income bracket - they benefitted like fat cats. But now it's the other way around and man do we see the mean spirit come to the surface.
ReplyDeleteDitto, Jim and 12:42. A co-worker once said Bush's entire administration could be boiled down into five words: I got mine, screw you. And as far as Tricky Dicky? Simply read "All the President's Men" and "The Final Days" and be amazed.
ReplyDeleteIt's prime time for organizing. Hope the unions flourish at Gannett. I don't think it makes a hoot of difference who is or is not in Washington. Gannett employees need to organize at the grassroots level.
ReplyDeleteYour two-graf post does not in any way fit your headline. You say absolutely nothing about what his appointment means for Gannett. You can do better, Jim.
ReplyDelete7:42 pm: Agreed. (Although the comments have been interesting.)
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