Philadelphia Newspapers Lay off 68 Guild Union Members
Feb. 27, 2008
The Company laid off 68 Guild members today from the advertising, circulation, customer service, finance, marketing communications and systems departments.
“If the revenue is not there, then we have to cut expenses,” Michael Lorenca, executive vice president of Human Resources, told Guild officers. He said he did not know how much savings would result from the layoffs.
The layoff is effective March 28. However, the Company has told members to leave today and plans to reassign their work to surviving staff.
The Guild will begin working with the company to establish which of the laid off workers have “bumping rights” into other positions. That works the good old fashion union way. Those with seniority, bump those with less seniority if the position is comparable. The trouble with that is, once the laid off worker gets a lower position back, with less pay, they will soon realize they would have been better off being with the fired employees. HR gets a two-for.
Hey, maybe Hillary or Obama can save their jobs.
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