The current battle the newspapers are waging echoes the New York Typesetter's Strike of 1978. That strike affected the Post, News and Times, and was all about job security and innovation. From the Time article link below, “The city's publishers have been trying for more than 15 years to revamp their antediluvian production methods and eliminate wasteful staffing practices, but the craft unions, fearing job losses and declining membership, have always resisted.” Sounds familiar.
Again from the Time article, "The union argues that innovations at the papers have created a need for more—not fewer—pressmen, and that management's proposal would eventually cost up to 50% of the membership their jobs—a figure the publishers do not dispute."
Interesting that the newspapers wanted to innovate in '78, but they decline in '09.
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Repeating the Past
Again from the Time article, "The union argues that innovations at the papers have created a need for more—not fewer—pressmen, and that management's proposal would eventually cost up to 50% of the membership their jobs—a figure the publishers do not dispute."
Interesting that the newspapers wanted to innovate in '78, but they decline in '09.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,919810,00.html
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