Drove through downtown Flint this morning and there were "Shame on MLive" pickets in front of the Rowe Building, the planned new headquarters for the Flint Journal.
Did just a little crude reporting as I didn't have time for more and it appears the local union officials are upset that work being done on the offices for the newspaper is using a Grand Rapids electrical firm instead of a local union one.
Good start for the new company here in depressed Flint. If you know more, feel free to chime in. If I'd had my camera with me I would have taken a photo.
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Will there be a photo of the pickets in the Journal? :)
Great job of keeping us informed of all the developments related to the new MLive, Jim.
Do you suppose they hired one company to do work at every paper so they could get a better deal?
Dear Anonymous 23:11:
Probably, but did they put it out for bid for local contractors in Flint to bid on? I don't know the answer to that question, so maybe the paper should address that in the coverage of the pickets.
Here's another question: Are the people who were picketing or the union people who are so upset subscribers to the paper? My guess in a lot of cases is no ...
Along the "no real reporting on ourselves" lines, see this good AJR article: http://ajr.org/Article.asp?id=5190
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