Is the End of the LA Times at Hand?
Frying Pan editor Steven Mikulan just posted an important interview with LA Times pressman and labor blogger Ed Padgett. Padgett says that since the Times‘ press operators joined the Teamsters union in 2008, 103 out of 220 original members have been laid off. “Non-union employees [get] 20 to 25 weeks severance while union members get nothing,” he says.
Horrible. But the real news is that Padgett says the LA Times brass have told him the paper will go online only in the next three to five years.
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