Armstrong Feeling the Heat?

Notice all the "positive" management feedback lately?

They never paid our staff so much attention before this union drive kicked into gear. Now they're showering us with attention: some modest and long overdue investments in equipment, the sudden increase in their communication with us...and now meetings about the union campaign at every work site.

What gives, you ask? (OK, I ask...) Clearly the company is feeling the heat of our outreach, even though we're just getting started.

Meanwhile, we're asking for renewed negotiations on a contract to protect our rights to bargain with the company and give us a voice in the future of the expanded BANG-EB. But so far, MediaNews management is refusing to meet and bargain, other than to discuss effects of the consolidation. And, speaking of consolidation, now that we are all one big MNG family, we're looking out for the future -- for all of us -- and looking to have a say in how it turns out. That's what family does, right?