Seattle Times Publisher Frank Blethen's new mantra for his paper's employees goes like this, according to an in-house memo circulated around the Seattle paper on Monday: "Survive'ꀦtransform'ꀦtransition'ꀦthrive." Sounds kind of catchy, but so far the Times seems to be hung up on the "survive"
In Maine, where the majority-owning Blethen family rediscovered its roots a decade ago, the Seattle Times Co. is selling three prominent dailies – at a nadir for the newspaper business. It's a bad sign.
The end-of-the-month showdown between the Seattle Times Co. [http://www.seattletimescompany.com/] and Teamsters Local 174 [http://www.teamsters174.org/] truckers appears to be off, for now anyway. Times Co. senior vice president for human resources Alayne Fardella, in an update sent to the paper's e
The newspaper and the Teamsters trade complaints alleging unfair labor practices surrounding the company's move to outsource trucking. The union says a strike is possible.
Having never fully recovered from a strike seven years ago, the state's biggest newspaper is entering a period of critical labor negotiations. The company plans to outsource Teamsters jobs, and the Newspaper Guild contract is up for renewal.
