• Tribune Publishing to furlough 160 union staffers a week per month

    Tribune Publishing to furlough 160 union staffers a week per month

    Tribune Publishing and The Chicago Tribune Guild, the union representing its newsroom employees, have reached a tentative agreement to furlough 160 editorial staffers for one week in the months of May, June and July, while postponing discussions of longer-term furloughs until at least the end of July. The union tweeted the terms of the tentative …
  • Tribune Publishing furloughs employees in second round of cuts this month

    Tribune Publishing furloughs employees in second round of cuts this month

    Tribune Publishing, owner of the Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News and Baltimore Sun, is instituting furloughs for employees making as little as $40,000 a year in its second round of cuts this month. All non-union employees making $40,000 to $67,000 a year will be furloughed for one week per month, CEO Terry Jimenez said …
  • Tribune Publishing, parent company to Daily News, is cutting salaries

    Tribune Publishing, parent company to Daily News, is cutting salaries

    Tribune Publishing, the parent company of the Chicago Tribune, the New York Daily News, and the Baltimore Sun, late Thursday said it was asking employees across the company to take pay cuts ranging from 2 percent to 10 percent. Unionized shops within the company are being asked to take a 4.5 percent pay cut, according …