PiPress Withholds Bylines To Protest Layoffs

The staff is withholding them today to protest management’s unwillingness to negotiate rather than lay off nine staffers on June 30, David Brauer at MinnPost reports.

“The newsroom’s Newspaper Guild was supposed to vote that day on whether to negotiate givebacks that would forestall job cuts,” he says. “However, a few days before the vote, management said no dice.

Depending on who you talk to, the union should’ve voted earlier, or management should’ve made it clear the vote was fruitless after the union announced its plans June 12.”

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