6 posts and columns on unions

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Verizon Pursues Tough Line on Labor

in Mobile on July 13, 2011 at 12:00 am PT

Verizon Communications Inc. is seeking some of the biggest concessions in years from its unions, stepping up pressure on organized labor as the telecom industry shifts to less labor-intensive wireless technology.

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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Ticketmaster CEO Irving Azoff: How to Make Money While Music Becomes “Demonetized”

in D7 on May 27, 2009 at 9:31 am PT

As a longtime music executive and talent manager, Irving Azoff has had to find a way to work with everyone from inebriated rock stars to David Geffen. But he’s never had to placate Washington, D.C. before. But that’s what Azoff needs to do in order to pull off the deal of a lifetime: A merger between his Ticketmaster Entertainment, which dominates the ticketing business, and Live Nation, which dominates the live concert business. When Azoff isn’t busy trying to convince people that the merger doesn’t violate antitrust regulations, or running his ticketing company, he manages the careers of everyone from the Eagles to Christina Aguilera. Note the one thing in the music business he doesn’t spend time on: Selling recorded music.
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New York Times: We Won’t Have to Shutter the Boston Globe After All

in Media on May 4, 2009 at 9:10 am PT

The New York Times, which had threatened to shut down the Boston Globe unless that paper’s unions agreed to major concessions, says it got what it needed from the Globe’s workers after all. Once exception: The Globe’s unionized editorial employees, who have yet to come to terms with the paper’s owner. The Times make ominous sounds about what might happen–“evaluating our alternatives”–but nothing specific.

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Hearst Threatens to Close the San Francisco Chronicle

in News on February 24, 2009 at 6:33 pm PT

Hearst Corp. this afternoon said it may sell or close the San Francisco Chronicle if a new round of cost-saving measures cannot be accomplished in the coming weeks. Hearst said it will undertake “critical cost-saving measures including a significant reduction in the number of its unionized and non-union employees.”

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Verizon: No Strike; Talks Continue With CWA, IBEW

in News on August 4, 2008 at 7:45 am PT

Negotiations between Verizon (VZ) and unions representing 65,000 employees continued past the Saturday midnight contract expiration over the weekend, but union officials agreed not to call a strike while talks extended.