Approximately 1.3 million unemployed Americans lost their jobless benefits Saturday as the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program expired. "I don't know what we're going to do," said unemployed case manager Richard Mattos, 59, of Salem, Ore. "We could end up homeless because of this."

We know we have it easy, sitting here at home, stereotypically pajama-clad and content to avoid places with cubicles and/or workspaces. Though our bathrooms are hardly beacons of Scrubbing Bubbles, we also know we are blessed in that when we inevitably choose to relieve our bodies of the fragrant waste we carry, we…

While we'd still like to think Not-a-Mover's impressions of the Hearst staff are accurate, we've now been disabused of his notion that Rodale provides its employees with a granola-and-vodka-filled shangri-la of an office. This just in from an anonymous Rodalite:

The New York Times Co. paid Arthur Sulzberger a salary and bonus of $1.6 million in 2005, but don't think that means things are flush on 43rd Street. Quite the contrary: AME Bill Schmidt put out a memo this morning reminding employees of the current "period of financial angst" and all the ways everyone can cut back to…

Time Inc.'s Guild local has done yeoman's work this week, compiling all sorts of information on the mag publisher's layoff plans to give a comprehensive picture of the cuts, at least among Guild-covered jobs. Here are the totals, from what we can decipher:

Two memos went out at the Times today, and we can't help but see a connection.

As big labor's big hero, Roger Toussaint, goes around the city receiving rockstar-like welcomes and begging for money with which to pay TWU 100's millions of dollars in fines, it's important to remember not just lazy blue-collar workers who benefit from union protection. Lazy white-collar workers can benefit, too —…

In the post-Giuliani era, it's tough for a gay man in Times Square and seeking a little lovin' to know what to do with himself. The Gaiety closed last year, the buddy booths are fewer and further between, and, hell, there isn't even a good diva on Broadway at the moment. (Patti LuPone as Mrs. Lovett just doesn't seem…

Last time we were inside the Reuters building, typically mild-mannered journalists who work for the news service were wandering through the crowd to distribute flyers bearing various sorts of union agitprop. That was because the reporters there went more than two years without a contract after the last one expired,…