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May 22, 2012
Post-Dispatch Lays Off Six People Today
[UPDATE: United Media Guild tweets the number is now at six. Four copy editors, one photographer and one manager laid off. Erica Smith emailed to correct that one copy editor was part-time, the other was a full-time employee. The following post has been slightly tweaked to reflect that.]Twitter swee ... More >>
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October 6, 2011
More SIU-Carbondale Professors Threaten Strike
Illinois' budget woes have placed heavy constrictions on the state's higher education system, putting professors' contracts in jeopardy and portending layoffs. The situation is nearing the boiling point at Southern Illinois University's Carbondale campus, where yesterday a fourth faculty union vot ... More >>
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September 7, 2011
Three Fired From Post-Dispatch Newsroom; Three Others Take Buyouts
Somehow this image of the Post-Dispatch seems to work the best for this post.Lee Enterprises laid off two researchers and an editor from the Post-Dispatch newsroom today. The firings are the first time the newsroom has suffered layoffs since the Iowa-based Lee acquired the paper in 2005. Last mon ... More >>
Blogs
May 31, 2011
Russ Carnahan Honored by St. Louis Firefighters
Carnahan (with Rep. William Lacy Clay Jr.) will soon be adding an axe to his tool shed.We can officially say it now: Representative Russ Carnahan is getting the axe. What? Don't we have to wait for the 2012 elections for the fallout from redistricting -- when Missouri's shrinking population ... More >>
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April 20, 2011
Laid-Off Firefighters Want to Pump Your Stomach with Booze
This man can douse your burning liver. First they were employed. Then they were told they'd be laid off. Then they learned their jobs would be saved ... but only after they lost them. Now they're unemployed. But not for long. Confused yet? So are we. This calls for a drink! This afternoon ... More >>
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March 25, 2011
No Fatties for Texas, Except for Burgers and Hos
Wikimedia CommonsBreakfast of champions. Tacos and Fat Hos are getting Texas some attention. The 13th fattest state in the country was forced by a jury to reinstate their Miss San Antonio yesterday. Seventeen-year-old beauty queen Domonique Ramirez sued the Miss San Antonio pageant after a ... More >>
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March 15, 2011
St. Louis Firefighters Get Hosed; City Eliminates 30 Positions in First Layoff in Years
Fighting fire with fire-ings, naturally.St. Louis plans to fire 30 firefighters -- the most it can terminate without closing engine houses -- in anticipation of the fire department's pension fund increasing by $4.7 million next fiscal year.The layoffs are the first time in recent memory that the ... More >>
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December 22, 2010
East St. Louis Mayor Alvin Parks Tries to Be Opposite of a Grinch
Keegan HamiltonEast St. Louis mayor Alvin Parks, Jr., at a town hall meeting earlier this year.Whatever the opposite of a Grinch is, that's what East St. Louis mayor Alvin L. Parks, Jr., is trying to be. Upon hearing that his city was planning to lay off nineteen police officers, four public ... More >>
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December 15, 2010
Express Scripts Workers Shout Their Way to Victory
Kase WickmanBensalem, Penn. workers and union supporters outside Express Scripts, Inc. headquarters August 30.Last summer, dozens of workers from Express Scripts, Inc's Bensalem, Pennsylvania facility bused to the company's St. Louis headquarters to protest the threat of their branch's closure. T ... More >>
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September 15, 2010
Hop on Over
Kase WickmanBensalem, Penn. workers and union supporters outside Express Scripts, Inc. headquarters August 30.Last summer, dozens of workers from Express Scripts, Inc's Bensalem, Pennsylvania facility bused to the company's St. Louis headquarters to protest the threat of their branch's closure. T ... More >>
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July 1, 2010
City Tries to Balance Budget by Cutting Jobs
In an attempt to alleviate a $46 million shortfall in the city's budget, the Civil Service Commission yesterday decided to cut employee benefits, increase furlough days and, most drastically, lay off workers, including two dozen firefighters. Firefighters, needless to say, is not pleased with this ... More >>
Blogs
April 28, 2010
Attention Out-of-Work Ad Agency Folks: This Event is For You
All together now: "When life give you lemons..."St. Louis was once known as an advertising agency mecca. Not any more. And especially not since the start of the Great Recession. Dozens -- if not hundreds -- St. Louis advertising and marketing creatives have been laid off just in the past three ye ... More >>
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March 24, 2010
AB-InBev Brewery Workers Choose Between Buyouts and Layoffs
Image viaWho's behind the latest brewery lay-offs?Like a shopper deciding between Bud Light and Bud Select, local brewery workers are stuck with two underwhelming options from AB-InBev: retire early or get laid off.We missed this story when it first appeared in last Friday's St. Louis Business Jo ... More >>
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March 23, 2010
Report: Suburban Journals Lays Off Seven, Others to Take One Week Furlough
Photo: Chad GarrisonActual Suburban Journal.A website that tracks layoffs in the newspaper industry reports this week that seven employees were recently let go from the Suburban Journals. According to the site Paper Cuts, four editorial staffers and three advertising employees have been fired for ... More >>
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March 18, 2010
Lee Enterprises Throws Down the Gauntlet. Will The P-D Union Concede?
Wikimedia CommonsThe union that represents St. Louis Post-Dispatch employees has hired a pair of flacks who ran PR for the POTUS' '08 campaign in anticipation of a public fight with the paper's owner. Contract talks between the St. Louis Newspaper Guild and Lee Enterprises broke down last we ... More >>
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February 19, 2010
AB-InBev to Employees: This Job Cut Is For You
Image Via An armadillo after losing his job to corporate "restructuring"If something happens every month is it still considered news? We only ask because Anheuser-Busch InBev announced its plans to lay off another 400-plus employees from its North American workforce. That's the third time ... More >>
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October 23, 2009
Wounded, Laid-Off Lee Enterprises Reporter Gets Hired & Hitched
Todd Smith was the only person wounded in the Kirkwood shootings to survive. In case you missed Deb Peterson's schmooze on Todd Smith, the former Suburban Journals reporter who was wounded in the Kirkwood City Hall shooting a year before being laid off by the employer he took a bullet for: Smith ... More >>
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October 9, 2009
Kevin Renick's Song "Up in the Air" Makes It into Up in the Air
A few weeks ago, we reported that Kevin Renick's song "Up in the Air" was set for inclusion in the George Clooney movie Up In the Air. My colleague in LA, Randy Roberts, saw a screening of the movie, and confirmed its inclusion. Says the Daily RFT: And then there's the closing song, "Up In the Air, ... More >>
Blogs
September 2, 2009
Post-Dispatch Art Critic David Bonetti Saying Adieu
David Bonetti, art critic for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, will be punching the clock at 900 North Tucker for the last time this Friday. stltoday.comShrinking, and shrinking, and shrinkingBonetti tells Daily RFT he's taking a "voluntary layoff," an option the local daily has given to some staffer ... More >>
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August 27, 2009
Suburban Journals Announces Layoffs and Restructuring
Several former Suburban Journals staffers tell Daily RFT that the regional chain of free weeklies laid off an undetermined number of sports and news reporters yesterday. At the same time, the Journals managers told staff that the chain is restructuring its editions, and going from sixteen to ten. ... More >>
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August 21, 2009
Yet Another Round of Layoffs at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch newsroom last night lost another four people: three news researchers (who compile material for reporters) and a photo assistant.Executive editor Arnie Robbins announced the cuts in a memo to staff this morning, saying, "We left a handful of positions unfilled over the cou ... More >>
Blogs
June 24, 2009
The Morning Brew: Wednesday, 6.24
Creve Coeur-based Monsanto faces lower profits and imminent layoffs. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)The FDA warns that pistachios from the salmonella outbreak earlier this year are being repackaged and sold. (Reuters)Will the recession-busting deals at T.G.I. Friday's and other mid-level chain restaurants ... More >>
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June 23, 2009
The Morning Brew: Tuesday, 6.23
The recall of Nestlé Toll House cookie dough for E. coli contamination could lead to as many as 200 layoffs. (CNN)A Chicago-area company has recalled ground beef contaminated with E. coli. (Chicago Breaking News)The Chinese love Bordeaux, apparently. (AP)
Blogs
May 22, 2009
Unreal: Post-Dispatch Lays Off More Peeps -- and Scoops Daily RFT
Unreal has learned that the local daily laid off 39 people today. And actually reported (an apparent press release) on it!According to the un-bylined brief, the P-D let go of 36 people in circulation and 3 people in classifieds. Most of the jobs are being outsourced to Indiana. (Dave Sinclair ain't ... More >>
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April 29, 2009
Write or wrong: Readers debate the firing of reporter Todd Smith, who was shot at Kirkwood City Hall
Unreal has learned that the local daily laid off 39 people today. And actually reported (an apparent press release) on it!According to the un-bylined brief, the P-D let go of 36 people in circulation and 3 people in classifieds. Most of the jobs are being outsourced to Indiana. (Dave Sinclair ain't ... More >>
Blogs
February 19, 2009
The Morning Brew: Thursday, 2.19
Pork mega-producer Smithfield Foods is cutting jobs, closing factories and losing stock value. (AP)Guilty pleas in a big food-safety and graft case involving California's tomato-processing industry. (San Francisco Chronicle)A new study suggests eating apples might fight breast cancer. (Daily Telegra ... More >>
Blogs
January 9, 2009
Post-Dispatch Layoffs Include 14 From Newsroom
Columnist and commentary page editor Eric Mink and prep/college sports editor Cameron Hollway were among the slew of folks who got pink-slipped at the local daily yesterday. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch laid off 39 employees across four departments, including fourteen from the newsroom. ... More >>
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January 8, 2009
Post-Dispatch Lays Off 39 More Employees
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch today let go of 39 people across four departments -- newsroom, finance, operations and advertising. As far as the newsroom goes, so far I know of two online employees and one copy editor who were fired. The cuts apparently came as the night shift began arriving for work a ... More >>
Blogs
December 8, 2008
AB InBev To Lay Off 1,000 in St. Louis
Anheuser-Busch InBev employees are buzzing about imminent job cuts in the wake of InBev's recent acquisition of St. Louis' corporate crown jewel. The company today announced that it would cut 1,400 jobs in the United States, about 75 percent of them (1,050 jobs) in St. Louis. According to ... More >>
Blogs
October 10, 2008
Why Oh Why Don't They Call it "The Lee EnterPrizes"?
Anheuser-Busch InBev employees are buzzing about imminent job cuts in the wake of InBev's recent acquisition of St. Louis' corporate crown jewel. The company today announced that it would cut 1,400 jobs in the United States, about 75 percent of them (1,050 jobs) in St. Louis. According to ... More >>
Blogs
September 29, 2008
Memo: Post-Dispatch Editors Announce Layoffs
Anheuser-Busch InBev employees are buzzing about imminent job cuts in the wake of InBev's recent acquisition of St. Louis' corporate crown jewel. The company today announced that it would cut 1,400 jobs in the United States, about 75 percent of them (1,050 jobs) in St. Louis. According to ... More >>
Blogs
September 29, 2008
Post Food Critic Still Eating Heartily
Anheuser-Busch InBev employees are buzzing about imminent job cuts in the wake of InBev's recent acquisition of St. Louis' corporate crown jewel. The company today announced that it would cut 1,400 jobs in the United States, about 75 percent of them (1,050 jobs) in St. Louis. According to ... More >>
Blogs
September 29, 2008
Joe Bonwich Still on the Menu
Anheuser-Busch InBev employees are buzzing about imminent job cuts in the wake of InBev's recent acquisition of St. Louis' corporate crown jewel. The company today announced that it would cut 1,400 jobs in the United States, about 75 percent of them (1,050 jobs) in St. Louis. According to ... More >>
Blogs
September 29, 2008
Suburban Journals Also Shedding Employees, 45 Fired Friday
Anheuser-Busch InBev employees are buzzing about imminent job cuts in the wake of InBev's recent acquisition of St. Louis' corporate crown jewel. The company today announced that it would cut 1,400 jobs in the United States, about 75 percent of them (1,050 jobs) in St. Louis. According to ... More >>
Blogs
September 26, 2008
Eighteen to be Laid Off Today at Post-Dispatch
Anheuser-Busch InBev employees are buzzing about imminent job cuts in the wake of InBev's recent acquisition of St. Louis' corporate crown jewel. The company today announced that it would cut 1,400 jobs in the United States, about 75 percent of them (1,050 jobs) in St. Louis. According to ... More >>
Blogs
September 26, 2008
Post-Dispatch Lays Off Seventeen, Including its Primary Crime Reporter
Anheuser-Busch InBev employees are buzzing about imminent job cuts in the wake of InBev's recent acquisition of St. Louis' corporate crown jewel. The company today announced that it would cut 1,400 jobs in the United States, about 75 percent of them (1,050 jobs) in St. Louis. According to ... More >>
Blogs
September 25, 2008
Thank You and Here's My Distress: Sinclair Pulls Advertising From Post-Dispatch
Anheuser-Busch InBev employees are buzzing about imminent job cuts in the wake of InBev's recent acquisition of St. Louis' corporate crown jewel. The company today announced that it would cut 1,400 jobs in the United States, about 75 percent of them (1,050 jobs) in St. Louis. According to ... More >>
News
September 10, 2008
The Post-Dispatch is shedding news pages and slashing editorial staff – and there's no end in sight
Anheuser-Busch InBev employees are buzzing about imminent job cuts in the wake of InBev's recent acquisition of St. Louis' corporate crown jewel. The company today announced that it would cut 1,400 jobs in the United States, about 75 percent of them (1,050 jobs) in St. Louis. According to ... More >>
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