4 posts and columns on pay cuts

New York Times to Sack 100 Staffers

in News on October 19, 2009 at 12:16 pm PT

If newspapers are suffering a death by 1000 cuts, the next 100 will be made at the New York Times. The company today announced plans to reduce its newsroom staff by eight percent by the end of 2009. Cuts will be made by buyout, but the company will resort to layoffs should its hand be forced.
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New York Times Tells the Boston Globe It Doesn’t Have to Sell the Boston Globe

in Media on September 9, 2009 at 11:32 am PT

The cash-strapped New York Times, which has put the Boston Globe and its other New England properties up for sale, wants you to know that it’s in no way having a fire sale. Boston Globe employees appeared to have taken that message at face value.
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New York Times Cuts Salaries, Jobs

in Media on March 26, 2009 at 11:19 am PT

Last year, New York Times executive editor Bill Keller told the newspaper’s newsroom that he would try very hard to not fire any of them. But he didn’t say anything about pay cuts. The Times today announced that it would be cutting salaries of its nonunion employees from 2.5 percent to 5 percent, and that it would be asking for “similar” cuts from its unionized newsroom workers “in a spirit of shared sacrifice and as a way to otherwise avoid layoffs in the newsroom.” It has also laid off 100 employees from its business operations.
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Microsoft Temp Organizer Reconsiders Pay-Cut Protests

in News on March 9, 2009 at 9:47 am PT

The leader of Microsoft’s aggrieved temporary employees doesn’t want the job anymore. “I decided that I did not want to become a labor organizer and give up my work in software,” Phil Palios blogged Thursday. “I love software, it is my passion in life and I still had a great job on an amazing team at the best software company in the world.”