Guild lobbies Daily Breeze*, **
Organizers with the Southern California Media Guild, which represents journalists at the Long Beach Press-Telegram, were outside the Daily Breeze offices in Torrance today. I'm told they handed out fliers and talked about the bad things MediaNews has done as part of its Southern California consolidation strategy.
One of those decisions was to place P-T editorial under Breeze management, which didn't go over very well in Long Beach.
The Breeze is the most recent addition to LANG. Since most of the workers there were hired back when the more generous Copley Press ran the place, I don't expect the organizing effort will gain much traction.
*Meanwhile, Inkstainedretch over Tell Zell is trying to launch a union drive at the Los Angeles Times.
**Correction: The fliers referenced the bad things that happened under MediaNews, not the organizers. My mistake.
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2 comments:
" talked about the bad things MediaNews has done as part of its Southern California consolidation strategy."
Nope. They didn't say anything about MediaNews.
They said a few words about the union, that they were available to talk to us, handed out a flyer introducing the union with contact information and that was it. I heard one of them gave out business cards tho I didn't get one.
I'm not sure where the "bad things" part came from, but as someone else already pointed out, we didn't mention MediaNews at all. The entire trip was nothing but amicable - everyone we met with was very polite, including Breeze editor Phillip Sanfield.
We're not here to hurt the company, our only goal is to help the employees. That's an important distinction.
Anyhow, we'd like to thank everyone who talked to us. If we missed you, please feel free to drop us a line at lbguild9400@gmail.com
Thanks.
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