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