When it’s the Toronto Star, labor unions should simply understand that business and profit and controlling union labor costs are important for survival.
I love this part of the article:
Big cuts loom at the Toronto Star
… John Cruickshank told employees in a memo Tuesday that the broad reworking of the company “will affect every job in every corner of the organization” and could include layoffs.
He also said that Canada’s largest circulation daily paper is also exploring the possibility of contracting out some work in both copy editing and pagination work. The plans could expand to include editorial content and other production, he added.
“We must find the best way to operate our business at the lowest possible cost, including contracting out non core functions where there is a sound business case to do so,” he wrote in the memo.
“This will involve what is likely to be the biggest restructuring of the Star’s workforce in its history.”
Cruickshank said the company has already notified the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers union that it could contract out some work. The company would also need to formally notify the union of any layoff plans, according to the collective agreement.
The union issued its own statement saying the Star has told them it plans to contract out as many as 100 union editing jobs. The newspaper has 390 employees in the editorial department.
Another 60 jobs are expected to be cut in advertising and graphics, the union said.
Toronto Star spokesman Bob Hepburn declined to confirm those estimates, citing confidentiality reasons.
He said the severance packages will be offered to both union and non-union members in all departments, and that the company doesn’t have a set quota for how many people it hopes will accept the packages.
Union leader Maureen Dawson criticized the Star’s decision and said the labour group plans to offer alternatives to the planned outsourcing move.
“Journalism is a collaborative effort, the product of a team of reporters, photographers and editors working in concert to produce the kind of activist agenda that has served Star readers and our community so well for so long,” she said.
“To remove a critical element of that work is to shortchange everyone who depends on it.” …
How do they keep a straight face, is what I’d like to know.
EXTRA, EXTRA!
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