[Strikers dressed as cowboys to spotlight "Wild West" of publishing]
Newsquest managers changed the location -- twice -- for a "think tank'' meeting today, rather than face unionized employees conducting a two-day strike of the Gannett U.K. newspaper subsidiary, a Guardian report says today. The meeting was to include 11 Newsquest managers, says Guardian media columnist Roy Greenslade.
The two-day strike by employees at papers in Sutton and Twickenham is protesting a proposal to close the papers' sports and leisure department, costing nine jobs, according to Greenslade.
The picket
His column continued: "NUJ members are becoming ever more inventive to publicise their plight. Two months ago, journalists in Enfield working for Tindle Newspapers staged a mock funeral as a way of demonstrating to local people the danger their papers were facing."
About Newsquest
The division employs about one in seven of Gannett's 32,600 global employees -- a total of 4,800 -- at 17 dailies and hundreds of weeklies. Newsquest cut nearly 6% of its jobs last year, according to GCI's just-filed annual 10-K statement to U.S. regulators. GCI bought the U.K. operation in the summer of 1999 for about $1.5 billion.
Related: see the NUJ's strike blog.
[Photo: NUJ]
Now that's creative.
ReplyDeletePickets, not picketers.
ReplyDeleteGood catch, 9:38.
ReplyDeleteJust pathetic. It's like the children and the dressing up box. Grow up!
ReplyDeleteHere's one thing they aren't: sheep.
ReplyDeleteSure they are, they are union sheep. Pay your dues, hit the clown.
ReplyDelete7:31 Ah, speak positively of a union action, and suddenly the angel of death appears.
ReplyDeleteTheir leader is McElroy so they have balls.
ReplyDeleteGotta love the Brits. Would-be world conquerors with remnants of colonialism all around the globe and they're still a bunch of feisty lads and lassies. Carry on. Over here we seem to have lost our gumption, beaten, bowed and turned into sheep-like creatures hiding our true thoughts, ever fearful of what's to come. Yep, fear works. So hats off to the Union Jack!
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