Like a scene from the Godfather, the Daily News continues to help to keep your head to spinning, as they update the staff roster today with some familiar names.
A few weeks ago, the word was out that the entire production team had been exiled from the backrooms of the Daily News, a story that seemed to be backed up by the fact that the pictures of Ann Ferguson and Trevor Kayzer both disappeared from the Page four left side roster of worker bee Daily Newsies around October 21, banished it seems until today's edition.
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A rather unusual thing considering the fact that paper and its union were in the midst of rather heated labour negotiations,and making for a move that no doubt was considered by some to be a certifiable punch in the nose to the union one would suspect.
Now, as we open up our Thursday edition and scan the page four listings, it’s shazam time, as they’re back at work we guess, as the two production employees have returned to the printed roster of hard working serfs to the Glacier Ventures empire.
It all leaves one just a little confused as to what is going on at the paper these days, what with a strike mandate still out there waiting to be acted upon, labour negotiations maybe on, or maybe off and employees coming and going at the roll of the presses…
As the paper seems to get thinner and thinner these days and the ad levels on those pages that still get delivered seem to feature more and more in house promotional items (shop local, avoid driving on the wrong side of the road) one wonders what is next in the ongoing tales from the printing press.
A few weeks ago, the word was out that the entire production team had been exiled from the backrooms of the Daily News, a story that seemed to be backed up by the fact that the pictures of Ann Ferguson and Trevor Kayzer both disappeared from the Page four left side roster of worker bee Daily Newsies around October 21, banished it seems until today's edition.
.
A rather unusual thing considering the fact that paper and its union were in the midst of rather heated labour negotiations,and making for a move that no doubt was considered by some to be a certifiable punch in the nose to the union one would suspect.
Now, as we open up our Thursday edition and scan the page four listings, it’s shazam time, as they’re back at work we guess, as the two production employees have returned to the printed roster of hard working serfs to the Glacier Ventures empire.
It all leaves one just a little confused as to what is going on at the paper these days, what with a strike mandate still out there waiting to be acted upon, labour negotiations maybe on, or maybe off and employees coming and going at the roll of the presses…
As the paper seems to get thinner and thinner these days and the ad levels on those pages that still get delivered seem to feature more and more in house promotional items (shop local, avoid driving on the wrong side of the road) one wonders what is next in the ongoing tales from the printing press.
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Update: Friday's Daily News has the production side of the paper once again exiled from public distribution, as the photos of the two workers from that department once again have gone missing from the staff photos on page four.
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