Newspaper Saved, but Employees Pay a Price
In a last-minute deal, a third union at the Jersey Journal agreed to give up half of its jobs to save the 135-year-old Jersey City daily.
Instead of the planned headline “Goodbye,” the Journal hit doorsteps Saturday morning reading: “JJ Survives!”
The Journal’s management had announced that the paper would stop publishing as of Saturday because the drivers union would not agree to cut half of its jobs, as the paper’s journalists and office workers had agreed to do.
Shortly after midnight Friday, the drivers union reached a deal to cut nine of the 18 drivers’ jobs.
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