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more about #labor more comments → TheSometimesWhy: What's amazing to me is how so many comments here tout the same old line about this practice being the "industry standard" as justifying it as an ethi... more » rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny: It's still better than "within five days of publication" like my last would-be boss tried to sneak past me. more » D2theMatthews: Where's your Freelancer's Union now? more » Swifter: This is a standard business practice. more » daveyjonesisdead: Early payment discounts are pretty common, but usually are involved when the purchaser is paying a lot of money. This sort of flips it on it's head an... more » BxgrlJeri: I will gladly pay you on Tuesday for a hamburger today. more » AzureTexan: OK, fine, but if they're still late on a payment, do we get to go break the thumbs of Jeffrey L. Bewkes? more » iplaudius: So are they admitting that they do not pay people according to the terms of their contracts? more » RandomLunatic: God, I'm so embarrassed to say this, but there have been times when if I'd been presented such an option, I would have taken it in a heartbeat. more » miss_msry: I've been needing a Time, Inc. t-shirt. Give me a call, I still shoot film. more » TheSometimesWhy: History proves that few people have ever gone broke loan-sharking. Welcome to the tank, Time, Inc. more » OdetteOxyntes: I finished my journalism degree in May and had to do manual labor for two months until I found a writing job at the end of July. I used to read these ... more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: j-o-b-z pay the b-i-l-l-z more » blahniksforlife: Let me say, I know Matt Crawford and he's a wack job. The press's romance with this book just reveals journalists dissatisfaction with their own profe... more » Seeräuber Jenny: This was my favorite comment on the NYT website: Ah, the romance of being downwardly mobile. How convenient in a recession. more » -
#ripoffs
Time Inc. Will Pay You Promptly, If You Pay Them for the Service
Time Inc. has opened up a fantastic new market: charging its freelancers for the privilege of being paid for their work in a timely fashion. More » -
#trendwatch
Book Inspires Yuppies to Take Jobs They'll Regret
Seriously, this whole Shop Class As Soulcraft idolatry movement full of retro-blue collar yuppies: stop it. You people are like hippies but instead of getting back to nature you want to get back to... floor cleaning jobs, apparently. More » -
#money
Union Goon, Latte-Sipping Terrorist-Loving Academic To Destroy New York Finance Industry
The new chairman of the New York Fed is not a banker or financier! It is Denis Hughes, the president of the New York State AFL-CIO. And the deputy chairman is Columbia University President Lee Bollinger! Crazy! [WP] -
#stevejobs
How Palm Faced Down a Tyrannical Control Freak
Some extraordinary communications have leaked to Bloomberg, showing Steve Jobs threatening his counterpart at Palm. It seems the Apple CEO — and supposed empowerer of creative workers everywhere — wanted to keep his workers locked down like so much chattel. More » -
#5wpr
Ronn [sic] Torossian's Rowdy Labor Department Run-In (Updated)
This morning we heard that 5WPR, flackery-mongering home of incompetent superflack Ronn [sic] Torossian, had a run-in with the Labor department yesterday. We have details from insiders. They are more ridiculous than you may have anticipated. Craziness, ahoy! [UPDATED below]. More » -
#rumormonger
Labor Troubles at 5WPR?
We're hearing from several sources that 5WPR, the PR firm of our friend Ronn [sic] Torossian, was raided by the Labor Department yesterday. Anyone who was there at the time care to share details? Email us. We'll keep you anonymous. -
#smartphones
Workers of the World, Cast Off the Yoke of iPhone-ism!
T-Mobile and CB Richard Ellis were sued by employees for requiring, but not paying wages for, after-hours communication via smartphones. Past court decisions, involving pagers, have hinged on employees' ability to engage in "personal pursuits." More » -
#printisdead
NY Times Now Free to Sell Boston Globe to Some Glorious Sucker
After weeks of wrangling that nearly resulted in the shutdown of the Boston Globe, members of the Boston Newspaper Guild approved a new labor agreement with the New York Times Company by a 366-to-179 vote. [New York Times] -
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#breakthroughs
Tentative Settlement Reached in Times vs. Globe Deathmatch
After months of jostling between the New York Times and the largest union representing employees of the Boston Globe, the two sides reached a tentative settlement around 11Ppm last night, perhaps paving the way for the Globe to be sold. More » -
#printisdead
Fear and Loathing at the Boston Globe Over Unilateral 23% Pay Cuts
Yesterday the Globe's main union rejected a proposal from its parent company, the New York Times, that would've resulted in 10% employee pay cuts. The Times then announced a 23% pay cut instead, which slightly upset the Globe's union. More » -
#printisdead
Boston Globe Rejects Bad Cutbacks in Favor of Worse Cutbacks
The Boston Globe lost $50 million last year. It's projected to lose $85 million this year. So the New York Times Co. asked the newsroom to accept a package of cutbacks. Yesterday, they voted "no." Now they're really getting screwed. More » -
#labor
Email Details Secret Google-Apple Deal on Employees
Silicon Valley businessmen fancy themselves unflinching hard-core capitalists. Yet they hate to compete for workers — and the New York Times found an email to prove it. More » -
#labor
Were Valley Immigrants Traded Like Property? Feds Wonder
Tech giants have long sought more work visas, saying they enrich immigrants. But a reported Justice Department investigation raises the possibility Google, Apple and Yahoo, among others, colluded to hold down wages. More » -
#gawkerstalker
Sean Penn, Friend of the People: 160 Central Park S
[Submit your own Gawker Stalker sightings to stalker@gawker.com] May 12 @ 11am There's a work stoppage at the essex hotel. mr. penn happened to be there filming a movie, saw his brothers and sisters protesting. More »
