Chicago Sun-Times violating union agreements

Ever since the Chicago Sun-Times started pillaging the regional community newspapers, it has been violating its claim to be a union newspaper. The majority of community newspapers it grabs are non-union. And the Chicago Sun-Times has been using that fact to save money, They have been gutting the community newspapers and fleecing them for their advertising revenues to support their own deteriorating business.

The Chicago Sun-Times takes articles from the non-union newspapers that are written by non-union employees and they publish them in the Chicago Sun-Times, filling valuable editorial content space which has become smaller and smaller in the paper. In other words, space is a premium for new copy and there isn't as much today as there was in the past.

But the worst thing is that the articles they take from non-union writers are replacing articles that could have been written by union writers at the Chicago Sun-Times.

So, by doing this, they have been able to shove union workers aside. And worse, they have used this system to support their policies of firing union writers who are paid at a higher rate than the non-union workers who writing they are exploiting.

You won't see this story in the Chicago Sun-Times because they do not write about or expose their own unethical misconduct and their hypocrisies and double standards. And since they have that big fat-cat contract to the Chicago Tribune to publish the Chicago Sun-Times, at the expense of 400 loyal union printers, the Chicago Tribune won't write about it either. The Tribune has been bought off.

Instead of writing about this, the Chicago Sun-Times has been publishing really stupid and pointless stories about other topics including: the PR for Bank of America. Instead of reporting and criticizing the bank for imposing outrageous ATM card fees, is getting Chicago Sun-Times PR support to boost their image. And there is the ongoing ridiculous charges against the Town of Cicero that, wow, politicians hire their relatives -- like not every municipality government leader is hiring their own relatives too? Amazing waste of news space.

Of course, when it comes to nepotism, the Chicago Sun-Times is right up there hiring their relatives and putting relatives of their business owners in key positions. Nepotism is only bad when someone else does it, not the Chicago Sun-Times.

BT

Union-busting Chicago Sun-Times, more lay-offs and Marin still a hypocrite

Chicago Sun-Times management is mulling a plan to fire editorial workers including two reporters who they believe have been "disloyal" to their newspaper. One is an investigative reporter. Another is a beat reporter. 

The newspaper also reportedly met with the publishers of three of its top non-union community newspaper properties and, to undermine the union, agreed to use more non-union editorial copy from the non-union newspapers.

It's a cute anti-union gimmick. Buy up anti-union newspapers and then use the anti-union workers (exploit them) to fill up copy in the "union" newspaper the Chicago Sun-Times.

The end result is that the Chicago Sun-Times is doing more to bust the union than the Chicago Tribune ever did; not to mention that the Sun-Times fired 400 union workers (including mwaaaah) so that they could save money by publishing at an anti-union printer -- the Chicago Tribune.

Normally, Carol Marin would write about these shenanigans but she has been compromised -- at her own choosing, of course. She is allowed to triple-dip and hold several jobs (at the expense of the union workers who were fired). So Carol Marin is doing very well financially, which makes it easy for her to slam others.

Unethical. Hypocritical. And a true journalism double-standard that the Chicago Sun-Times hopes no one will see.

BT

Sun-Times slanders Braun to promote pals of its questionable business wners

Chicago Sun-Times pit bull poodle Carol Marin is assaulting Carol Moseley Braun. Marin alleges falsely that Braun's campaign for mayor failed to disclose more than $300,000 in spending. That's not true but anything Marin writes is published in the Sun-Times regardless of backup facts.

To make it worse, Marin accused Braun of throwing her elderly campaign worker "under the bus" in order to make Braun look even worse.

Braun simply said that one of her aides was putting the documentation together and may not have recorded everything. That's a far cry from stealing or fiscal mismanagement or violating state laws.

Why is Marin attacking Braun? Because Marin was a backer and supporter of first Gery Chico, but when it looked like Chico was losing to Rahm Emanuel, she was ordered by the newspaper owners (yes, the newspaper is owned by Chicago businessmen and a few mobsters and sultry characters) to switch to Emanuel. And she did.

The people of Chicago are not getting the straight story from the Sun-Times and the Sun-Times is not being fair or ethical. The newspaper has hired 18 people who are related to owners of the Sun-Times, while firing 400 union workers to break the union. They gave the newspaper to the Chicago Tribune to print, which basically means it is the Chicago Tribune that owns the Sun-Times.

Union-busting has always been one of the Sun-Times goals to profit from the dying newspaper.

It's a shame that the Chicago Sun-Times is so pathetic today. Although it "won" a Pulitzer -- it's first ina  long time, it came at the cost of hundreds of families, employee wages and a major part of the newspaper's collapsing ethics.

Boycott the Chicago Sun-Times and tell them you do not support the robber barons who now own it and are destroying it.

The reporters who work there agree but they are afraid to speak up, The Sun-Times union has been gutted by management and pressures from the business cronies and investors who are using the Sun-Times to elect their pals, profit for their businesses and strike out at their foes.

Tragic.

Click here to read Marin's latest PR Release for her friends who hate Braun.

BT