By Joel Thurtell
While I was towing our floating docks across Patten Bay closing the cottage for ’09, a good ten hours drive from Motown, managers at the Detroit Free Press were sharpening their knives.
More editorial staffers will be fired.
No more paydays for:
One artist.
One copy editor.
Two reporters.
One photographer.
One editorial assistant.
One designer.
Seven in all.
Here’s the note I received about the latest purge:
In a meeting on Thursday, October 15, the Free Press informed the Newspaper Guild that it will lay off seven employees in the Guild bargaining unit. The layoffs would include one person in the classifications of artist, copy editor, editorial assistant, designer, and photographer and two persons in the reporter classification. Management did not say who it would lay off, but indicated that it would again use some exemptions to layoff by seniority. No detail was provided as to the timing of layoffs.
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