Times Union cuts workers

New York's Times Union announced the layoffs of 15 full-time employees, including editors, a Times Union story said.
Included in the cuts was business editor and weekly columnist, Marlene Kennedy, senior editor and the newspaper's reader representative, Monica Bartoszek, and sports editor Bill Callen.
According to the story, most employees were notified Monday and Tuesday and the layoffs were effective immediately.

View the story here.

Times Union employees reject outsourcing

According to the Albany Newspaper Guild blog, Time Union employees voted down a contract offer that would have allowed the company to outsource any job and layoff employees regardless of their time and seniority at the newspaper by a vote of 125 to 35.
View the blog release here.

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