Lee Enterprises, parent of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the St. Louis Newspaper Guild, which represents many of the local daily's employees, including most of the newsroom, have still not worked out a new contract. The current contract expires this coming weekend.Updates on the Guild website show that Lee wants P-D staffers to agree to a 23 percent pay cut that would take place over the next three years (15 percent the first year, 5 percent each of the following two years). Lee also wants to
Zach Dyer is a writer living in Saint Louis. He did his thesis research on coffee farmers in Southern Mexico. Since then, he has visited coffee plantations in Costa Rica and Mexico as well as roasters and cafés across the U.S. He blogs about coffee for Gut Check every Wednesday.The first shot was fired across the bow last Tuesday at approximately 10 a.m. CST. The perfect storm of "economic conditions" finally made landfall at my day job, and several people, including my boss, were swept away.
Is your office like The Office when it comes to attitudes and policies regarding sexual orientation? Well, then, tomorrow is your big day. Pony up $100 and send your boss (and/or ignorant colleagues) to The Diversity Awareness Partnership's workshop, "Straight Talk About Gays in the Workplace." The seminar begins tomorrow morning (Tuesday) on the Wells Fargo (formerly AG Edwards) campus in downtown St. Louis. Click here for more information. And now, a lesson from The Office on how n
Don't you know? Gut Check has a Twitter account. You can follow me @gutcheckstl. Here's some of what you missed this week:@stlbites i should clarify> i agree: marc baltes rocked Dorm Room @33wine8:37 AM Aug 25th@stlbites you had leftovers? i did everything short of plant my face in the bowl.8:52 AM Aug 25th
