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"Like any rational person, our families are taking stock of the future and trying to figure out what our options are," says columnist and editorial writer Tony Norman. As a 20-year veteran, Norman doesn't have as much to fear as freelancers, part-timers and the staff's fresher full-timers, who would be the first to be forced out under union rules. Still, he adds, "that doesn't make me at all complacent."
Norman says this first meeting was "sort of what I expected. It's still early on. Folks are looking over their portfolios and wondering if It's time to move on" or to depend on seniority to save their positions, since the Guild contract's seniority provisions follow a "last hired/ first fired" approach. On a day when the stock market dropped almost 750 points, "old-timers know it's not time to step out" in search of other work, he added. "I don't hear people talkIng like they'll volunteer to go.""I'm confident that our Guild will represent me well," he continues. Hearing about the Guild's report on its first meeting with management, O'Neill adds, "I don't feel like I'm alone or we at the Post-Gazette are alone ... Almost everyone in the country's concerned about the future of our economy.See the full content of this document
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P-G Offering Buyouts; Layoffs Looming
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette news staffers seemed almost philosophical as they spoke about the contract buyouts management is about to offer - and the layoffs that may follow.
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