500 workers at The Seattle Times to take week unpaid

[uppityperson]

Source: SeattlePI

About 500 managers and non-union workers at The Seattle Times are being asked to take a week off without pay as financial troubles mount.

Company spokeswoman Jill Mackie says workers can take the time off in a weeklong chunk or a day at a time between now and February. She said she didn't immediately have details on how much money the Times expects to save.

It's the latest in a series of dire steps by the company, which has had three rounds of layoffs this year.

Read more: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/392960_times20.html

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I have noticed the paper has been shrinking recently. Extras are being cut, including a couple comics I liked, entertainment reviews, overall size. Paper newspapers are having difficulties.

[Norrin Radd]

1. I feel bad for the workers; I I hate the right-leaning Times, though.

[truedelphi]

6. My feelings exactly. Our local RW rag, The SF Chronicle,

HAs huge guest editorials from Insurance Industry hacks, er I mean, CEO's, on how they are really really needed by Obama administration to help us figure out how to provide health insurance for everyone.

Try writing a letter with an opposing opinion, and it will not be published.

[sarcasmo]

2. I would be willing to bet this is not a union company.

[gratuitous]

4. It's the non-union workers who are being "asked" to take an unpaid vacation

I wonder if those workers think collective bargaining is such a bad concept after all.

[BR_Parkway]

3. I'm a bit at a loss as to how one paper could have 500 managers

and are there union employees who are not getting laid off? The wording doesn't make that clear.

[uppityperson]

5. managers and non-union workers. I can't find anything on Times site, but here's an article from Oct.

This article is from Oct 2008
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008319479_circulation28.html

[KamaAina]

7. As long as they're not being furloughed...

...oh, wait a minute... :eyes: