NLRB Orders News-Press to Reinstate Fired Reporters

Barney, explain to me why you and many of the other previously fired NP staffers believe that Federal Labor law should be enforced to the full extent possible, but Federal Immigration law should not.

Conversely, why do you and many other supporters of McCaw believe the Federal Immigration law should be enforced to the full extent possible, but Federal Labor law should not......

igor, I am hardly a supporter of McCaw. I believe that both immigration and labor laws should be enforced with equal vigor, indeed they overlap in the protection they provide against labor abuse and corruption. For example, did you know that strawberry growers in Washington State were employing 6 year olds as pickers? This was a result of non-enforcement of both kinds of laws.

I dislike the NP and Indy equally. Both publications, like most of the MSM, eschew hard questions on third-rail issues like immigration, and toeing the PC line does little to answer them.

The question here is: Will she follow the NLRB's demands. I think we all know the answer to that 1! :) henry

Curious, why were they attempting to negotiate a contract with the McCaw consultants, a contract to do what?

What is the timeline for the appeal process? Must McCaw now go to Federal court, presumably with an ultimate appeal to the Supreme Court?

We should all hail the wisdom of "revisionist" here to point out that as long as any illegal alien walks amongst us then labor laws about wrongful termination should not be enforced either.

On the same logic, I guess no driving under the influence laws should be enforced either....so there.

To hell w/ all these laws, let's party! :) henry

My response to Hank's last comment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyVjdQ...

This is excellent news. Now Wendy McCall has to pay and pay dearly for her unfair labor practices.

Yahooooo!! Congratulations to the reporters for sticking with their cause and beliefs over this long haul! And thank you, too.

Meanwhile, over in Mordor: Peter Lance now has his marching orders to go dig up any dirt he can find on the NLRB board members and publish another completely un-vetted expose. Terry Tyler will write another of his embarrassingly simpering editorials. Wendy and Nippleburger will go off on their yacht with Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Stapletoon will be in the drive-thru lane at Jack in the Box on Milpas and clear them out of all their sirloin cheeseburgers. And you'll have to fill in the blank on this Don Katich guy, I don't know what the hell he does at the N-P except act as Wendy's personal Wormtongue every time they lose in court.

I hope that whatever court takes up this issue, if that happens, does not issue one of those injunction thingies delaying the implementation of the NLRB's orders. It would be nice to see the reporters get reinstated and receive their back pay even if Wendy litigates this to the bitter end.

Did any of us recognize her insanity when she bought the N-P?

Hahahaha! ANYTHING that puts the panties of Citizen McCaw in a pretzely twist makes me smile.

Why anyone still buys, reads, or places ads in that rag is beyond me. It isn't news---it's days old history and poorly reported at that. Take the whole Peter Lance amateuranza---a complete and total disgrace.

Now Wendy---whatcha gonna do? Goona go right on over the supreme falls is my guess. We'll all be sitting on our comfy life preservers watching you slip on over.

"This is excellent news. Now Wendy McCall has to pay and pay dearly for her unfair labor practices."
-- fhopson

Now there's the triumph of hope over reality. This is still years from being a done deal.

They use 6 year olds to pick strawberries because that have soft hands that don’t bruise the fruit. Who wants to eat bruised strawberries?

Just looking at the smugness of "the Nipper" and his beau turns my stomach! It makes me long for the day when public stocks were de rigueur and "running the gauntlet" of citizens provided some measure of public catharsis. Meanwhile, I'm keeping the promise I made to myself 5 years ago to NEVER, EVER read or buy Wendy's rag as long as she's at all associated with it.

Nippleberger, HAHAHAHA! Robo said Nippleberger! :) henry

By the way, Bill, thanks for the memories from that youtube link! It was awesome! :) henry

Word of the day: SIMPERING

I don't know John, Nippleberger hits an open E chord w/ me :) henry

Please continue to boycott the Newspress until they do the right thing. It's all about Freedom of the Press and reporters who are free to write the truth without fear of retribution.

revisionist: Can you explain to me why the US government and the state of California classify cannabis as a Schedule 1 drug, which, by definition, means it has no medical uses, when the US government owns patents (#6630,507, for example) and grants patents for medical uses of cannabis? Or, can you explain why our local medical marijuana dispensary ordinance was written primarily based on input from tax-exempt non-profit organizations ( primarily agencies that are part of the umbrella organization Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse) who lobbied in violation of their public non-profit status and by local elected officials lobbying in violation of state law?
McCaw doesn't endorse free speach, and this was a great decision, but I don't see how it can change the NP. So how long will this appeal take?

The thing w/ McCaw is she is of the same mindset as General Sherman during his march to the sea or the Russians during WWII: SCORCHED EARTH POLICY!
She will NOT relinquish to the NLRB demands & would rather see the NP go down in flames before anyone but her gets their way.
Nippleberger (DAMN! I LOVE THAT!) is just the hapless boytoy :) henry

Boycotting the News-Press is totally appropriate considering some of the frauds she has working for her.

What other "news source" would print a series of articles by a guy trying to get back at the cop that arrested him?

Do you think it's any coincidence that she hired Lanny Ebenstein to write anti-union editorials? Ebenstein just happens to headup a political nonprofit that has introduced a ballot measure to end collective bargaining. Do you see the big picture here?

The NP is an opinion rag and retaliation machine, not a news paper.

BOYCOTT THE NEWS-PRESS!!!

How do you boycott the NP when she has it dumped in your driveway free of charge, every week. Isn't that called littering? Please, make it stop!

isgood, I'm also fighting off the dumped advertising-only NP rag most mornings (I cancelled the subscription many years ago): my theory is that the NP can thus count us as part of its "audience" since it successfully throws the paper on the driveway...isn't this somehow illegal? Everyone on my block just tosses this crap into recycling, but M'haw & nippleberger count it in their circulation figures and thus can charge more for the ads...makes sense?
hurray for this NLRB decision, and in 10 years or so these poor reporters will get their backpack IF THEY ARE STILL ALIVE. Money talks in this country.

You BOYCOTT by letting her advertisers know you'll no longer do business with them because of who they use to advertise.

Good point Validated.

Who are some of the advertisers in the NP these days?

"Barney, explain to me why you and many of the other previously fired NP staffers believe that Federal Labor law should be enforced to the full extent possible, but Federal Immigration law should not." -Revisionist-

I have the answer--and I'm guessing it will be deleted: The News-Press (at least when I was there) hired illegal immigrants to do their janitorial work. They were treated like ^$#$ and I can't tell you how many times these workers would unload on me about their catch-22 situation. One worker had been their for nine years and was still getting minimum wage. The stories they would tell me were heartbreaking.

I have some advice for Mr. Von Wiesenberger: Per the photo at the top of this page, I admire his patriotism in saying the Pledge of Alligiance but it is the right hand that goes over the heart, and the heart is a bit lower than where he has his hand placed.

"I pledge allegiance, to the flag, that flies over de la Guerra Plaza. And to the Republican, at Ampersand, one paper, under fire, for one individual, with impunity, injustice and gall."

Bill, I think you mean Nippleberger :) henry

"High ho the witch is dead!" Love that movie!

Re: Above story reports that the "News-Press violated federal labor law by threatening employees with discipline for engaging in protected union activity by discharging newsroom employee Bob Guilliano for refusing to commit an unfair labor practice."

Please correct spelling to Guiliano (one L). Thank you. And this "newsroom employee" had the title of Assistant City Editor, who was in a supervisory capacity over the eight journalists but reported to Scott Steepleton, who reported to Wendy McCaw.

Just curious, does anyone have the full text of Scott Stapletoon's article saying that the NLRB ruling isn't valid (or words to that effect)?

Maybe Nippleburger has it :) henry

Interesting that the possibly returning employees are asking reader to cancel their subscriptions and not to advertise in the paper, which would have significant financial impact on the paper. I woud imagine once those employees are hired back, if subscriptions and advertisers do not come back, then routine layoffs would be necessary.

A good case of biting the hand that feeds you.

SezMe has it right on this one. Far from over. The NLRB has decades of pro-Labor bias - that's what it does - hard to find a case in which it supported the employer. Quite appropriate for McCaw to appeal.

I find it most interesting that in all the thousands of posts over the years on this subject how few were actually about the original issue - specifically who has/shouldhave control over content in a privately owned newspaper. Mostly hate mail to McCaw. Does anyone debate issues around here?

"Interesting that the possibly returning employees are asking reader to cancel their subscriptions and not to advertise in the paper, which would have significant financial impact on the paper. I woud imagine once those employees are hired back, if subscriptions and advertisers do not come back, then routine layoffs would be necessary.

A good case of biting the hand that feeds you."

As those illegally fired employees have been on the bread-line for five years, I hardly think they're being very well "fed."

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And you'll have to fill in the blank on this Don Katich guy, I don't know what the hell he does at the N-P except act as Wendy's personal Wormtongue every time they lose in court."

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