Job Cut Plans At Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Prompt Newsroom Walkout
Responding to management’s plans to cut 30 newsroom jobs, about 50 editors and reporters at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette staged a walkout yesterday, reports the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
The Post-Gazette has been cutting costs aggressively, with three rounds of buyouts since 2007. The paper also has been trying to pass a contract that would require newsroom employees to take a 25 percent wage cut in the first year and a ten percent cut in year two.
The Post-Gazette notified the union in mid-July that it intended to lay off 30 people in 30 days, or at the end of this week.
The walkout “was a demonstration to the company of what the newspaper and the newsroom would look like if they do indeed cut that many positions from the paper,” R.J.
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