The New York Times is expected to layoff 21 Newspaper Guild-represented employees this week, the Guild announced in a press release Monday.
PaperBandlers and Straighteners Union and the Post's unit of the Newspaper Guild joined the strike.
"People here are perplexed and troubled by this sequence of events," said Tom Mashberg, the newspaper guild's shop steward for editorial employees at The Herald.
When I went to work at the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969, I felt particularly proud to receive my newspaper guild card.
Their estimates are based on the following assumptions: that management will reach some sort of deal with the guild, that no other newspaper property would be involved, and that the company's minority interest in the Boston Red Sox would not be part of the deal.
In their drive for power, the Bolsheviks and their East European acolytes eliminated or undermined churches, charities, newspapers, guilds, literary and educational societies, companies and retail shops, stock markets, unions, banks, sports clubs and centuries-old universities.
Dave was a reporter for the Staten Island Advance and the Elizabeth Daily Journal before being named Associate Editor, later Editor of the American Newspaper Guild newspaper, and later the Guild's Director of Research and Information.
"Further details of this agreement will be made available to all guild members as quickly as possible," the newspaper guild said, adding that more information would be provided at a June 24 membership meeting.
The walkout began in the predawn hours of Tuesday morning after guild negotiators, on Monday, rejected what the newspapers' management called the final wage offer: a $3.30-per-hour increase over a six-year contract.
Just minutes before the company released its statement, Daniel Totten, the Boston guild's president, spoke to reporters outside the newspaper's offices shortly after the result was announced.
Mr. Sizemore said he expected that 92 Teamster-represented truck drivers, who handle the bulk delivery of the newspapers to major distribution sites, might honor the guild picket lines.
