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DESCRIPTION:Workers, Union and Community\nSupporters to Hold Press Conference\nin Front 
 of San Jose Mercury News to\nProtest Outsourcing and Union-Busting\n\nFaced 
 with imminent layoffs and management’s refusal to negotiate a contract in 
 good faith, workers from Northern California Media Workers Union Lo. 
 39521-CWA and community supporters will hold a press conference and picket 
 in front of the San Jose Mercury News, at:\n\n12:30 p.m., Tuesday, June 
 26\nin front of San Jose Mercury News\n750 Ridder Park Drive, San 
 Jose\n\nAmong those immediately affected are almost 30 workers in an 
 advertising-production department of San Jose’s main daily newspaper. The 
 company has announced it will lay off all the Composing Room workers on 
 July 1, the day after the contract runs out. Editorial workers, members of 
 the San Jose Newspaper Guild, are also facing layoffs of up to 25 percent 
 of their workforce, by the combining of departments in Media News 
 Group.\n\nMedia News Group owns 26 newspapers in northern California; the 
 Mercury News is one of its most recent purchases. The corporation recently 
 settled a lawsuit filed by Clinton Reilly, which charged Bay Area media 
 monopolization by Dean Singleton’s Media News Group and the Hearst 
 Corp.\n\nGloria La Riva, Typographical Sector president of the Media 
 Workers Union, Lo. 39521, which represents some of the affected workers, 
 said, “Media News Group’s gutting of jobs would create extreme hardship 
 for employees of the Mercury News and other newspapers in the 
 area.\n\n“The company plans to move some of the work of our members to 
 India, where the workers there will earn far less in wages. But we also 
 know that most of our work will remain in the San Jose plant, much of it 
 under non-union conditions.\n\n“We vigorously denounce this union-busting 
 and outsourcing scheme. We have absolutely nothing against the Indian 
 workers, and Dean Singleton is the only one who will benefit. With the 
 extra profits his company gains from outsourcing and layoffs, he will 
 expand his newspaper empire to the detriment of the workers and 
 community.”\n\nJim Harper, the union’s shop steward at the newspaper 
 and a 26-year employee, said, “Some of us have spent our entire working 
 lives here. Now the company wants to sweep us out the door like sweeping 
 dust under the rug. We are speaking out to let the public know we are 
 fighting to keep our jobs. We ask the advertisers and the community of the 
 San Jose area for their support.”\n\nEmployees in MNG’s Pleasanton and 
 Contra Costa offices have already lost their jobs through outsourcing to 
 Express KCS in India. Media News Group’s profits shot up to $13.3 million 
 during the quarter ending Sept. 30, 2006, up from $982,000 during the same 
 quarter the year before, due to acquisitions which included the Mercury 
 News.\n\nThe Newspaper Guild San Jose local is coordinated with this action 
 and is helping to get media to be there and cover it. South Bay 
 Mobilization urges union, student, and community activists to support this 
 struggle.\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/06/25/18430617.php
SUMMARY:Press conference and picket at San Jose Mercury News
LOCATION:12:30 p.m., Tuesday, June 26\nin front of San Jose Mercury News\n750 Ridder 
 Park Drive, San Jose \n\nmap:  
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URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/06/25/18430617.php
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