Keep on knockin’ but you can’t come in…

Management must be sweating it, judging from the latest move to squelch the union campaign. So, John Armstrong announced in an e-mail two weeks ago that management would be coming around to the different BANG-EB newsrooms to talk about our (Guild) outreach efforts. We asked all polite in a letter if we could include a member in these meetings to "discuss the Guild's campaign." It's manaagement talking about our campaign so you'd think they'd invite us. Their response: No. Yo! Big red flag alert... For goodness sake, Armstrong has had his feathers all puffed up about the recent case that forced the disclosure of police records. Is this so different? Or did management come up with a separate set of rules for themselves without telling us simple reporters who are the ones always pushing for more transparency? That just kills me. We usually jump all over someone when they deny us access to information. I don’t know anything else that raises my hackles and suspicions more. Can we hear both sides when it comes to our business? What are they bloody afraid of? That we might actually disagree with them or present a different perspective…like the truth? I totally think they are feeling the heat in our Guild kitchen. I already said it in a recent entry (i.e. rant).But, basically, they started all this hush-hush planning AND management sugar daddy smooching shortly after we launched the One Big BANG: One Guild Universe” campaign, which, I might add, is being led by us BANG’ers and has the support of colleagues at the SJ Merc, Chronicle, Wall St. Journal and other Guild-represented media outlets. (Okay, I just love that reporters are bucking the isolation thing we usually do because we work for competing news outlets.)