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McClatchy announces it'll end wage freeze. Things looking up for The Star?

By Peter Rugg, Tue., Dec. 8 2009 @ 2:00PM
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The Kansas City Star's parent company McClatchy has announced it will lift a company-wide wage freeze starting this January, according to the Charlotte Business Journal.

That's good news for the men and women working at 18th and Grand.

The company instituted a wage freeze in September 2008.

According to a memo released by Chief Executive Gary Pruitt, pay raises will start again on a varied timetable depending on the individual circumstances of each paper.

If this is the first sign of turnaround, it's a well-deserved ray of light for KC's daily.

In the last two years, the people working at the Star have survived four rounds of layoffs and a publisher who compares them to roadkill and workers trapped in a mine shaft.

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Kansas City Star, McClatchy Co., wage freeze
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inafnkaboutthefunk says:

Wouldn't it be a hoot if Mark Zieman got the first raise? I'm sure he's taken 4 pay cuts and suffered mightily.

Posted On: Tuesday, Dec. 8 2009 @ 8:46PM
P.O. Staremployee says:

Well isn't this the height of corporate hubris.

Zieman and McClatchy must have balls of steel to even think about writing a company wide memo about this crap.

They take 5 percent of our pay that we had already earned, which probably took most folks at the Star 5 years of raises to get and then they turn around 12 months later and gives us a crappy 1 or 2% back and they have the nerve to call it a "pay raise".

Isn't this just fucking marvelous.

Fucking wankers.

How about restoring the 5% that they took from us first before even beginning to talk about "pay raises"?

The suits at McClatchy and the Star are a joke.

BTW, why the hell does the Star have more VP's than the New York Times? Why do they need to have a VP for the editorial page?

Fucking crooks. All of them.

Posted On: Friday, Dec. 11 2009 @ 5:12PM

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