Deal Approved; Management Returns To Private Islands

Last night, the Newspaper Guild ratified its new agreement, 498-69, ensuring no work stoppages ’til late 2009. Although the agreement passed, the Guild decided to also issue a vote of “No confidence” on management’s commitment to producing quality newspapers.

From Steve Volk’s The Daily Strike blog:

That motion “instructs the Local 10 Executive Board to discuss - and pass — a resolution saying the following:

“1- Because of their tight-fisted, slash-and-burn, anti-labor tactics, we have NO CONFIDENCE in the new owners’ actual desire to publish great newspapers

“2- Because of the new owners’ recent record of poor business decisions, which includes hiring executives while promising layoffs of union workers, we have NO FAITH in their desire to treat employees with fairness and dignity

“3- Because of the yawning chasm between what the new owners promised and what they now are delivering, we have NO STOMACH to hear any more of their cheerful prattle.

“For the new owners we have
“No Confidence,
“No Faith,
“No Stomach.”

An amendment, which was accepted, asked that the new owners be mentioned by name.

Afterward, the union workers returned to the offices with a ralling cry of, “Okay, now let’s go put out a crappy product for owners we hate!”

No Confidence, No Faith, No Stomach [The Daily Strike]
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