Thursday, April 30, 2015
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Today in Labor History
April 29 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
Coxey’s Army of 500 unemployed civil war veterans reaches Washington, D.C. - 1894
An estimated one thousand silver miners, angry over low wages, the firing of union members and the planting of spies in their ranks by mine owners, seize a train, load it with 3,000 pounds of dynamite, and blow up the mill at the Bunker Hill mine in Wardner, Idaho - 1899
The special representative of the National War Labor Board issues a report, “Retroactive Date for Women’s Pay Adjustments,” setting forth provisions for wage rates for women working in war industries who were asking for equal pay. Women a year earlier had demanded equal pay for comparable work as that done by men – 1943
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Newspaper digital audience springs forward to 176 million
Newspaper digital audience springs forward to 176 million
BY JIM CONAGHAN, NAA VICE PRESIDENT OF RESEARCH & INDUSTRY ANALYSIS
Key Facts
The digital audience engaged with newspaper content reached a new peak in March 2015, totaling 176 million adult unique visitors. The count is a 10% increase from the 161 million unique visitors measured by comScore in March 2014.
The latest data also revealed:
— Those who use only mobile devices, rather than desktop or laptops, to consume newspaper digital content increased 53% in March 2015 from the same month a year ago, to 71 million adult unique visitors.
— Newspaper digital content net reach was highest for women age 25-34 and 35-44, at 92% for both groups.
— The newspaper digital audience was slightly younger than the overall Internet audience, with 56% of the unique visitors for newspaper digital under the age of 45 compared to 53% of the total Internet audience.
Tuesday Morning in the Blogosphere
Toledo Free Press folds after 10 years - Romenesko
The importance of newspapers - Russellville Courier
Wall Street Journal's digital revamp - Editors Weblog
Siri can read Tribune on Apple Watch - Robert Feder
New Russian media ownership law - Russia Beyond the Headlines
Google Announces Partnership With Newspapers In Europe - NPR
Production: The Power of Print Still Prevails - Editor and Publisher
Journalists Facing Biggest Threats in Recent Times - The New York Times
Major interest in digital and offset print app's from Heidelberg - World Press Online
A. H. Belo Corporation Announces First Quarter 2015 Financial Results - Yahoo Finance
Today in Labor History
April 28 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
Coal mine collapses at Eccles, W.Va., killing 181 workers - 1914
A total of 119 die in Benwood, W.Va., coal mine disaster - 1924
United Wallpaper Craftsmen & Workers of North America merges with Pulp, Sulfite & Paper Mill Workers - 1958
American Federation of Hosiery Workers merges with Textile Workers Union of America - 1965
Congress creates OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The AFL-CIO sets April 28 as “Workers Memorial Day” to honor the hundreds of thousands of workers killed and injured on the job every year - 1970
First “Take Our Daughters to Work Day,” promoted by the Ms. Foundation, to boost self-esteem of girls with invitations to a parent’s workplace - 1993
April 27
First strike for 10-hour day, by Boston carpenters - 1825
First strike for 10-hour day, by Boston carpenters - 1825
James Oppenheim’s poem “Bread and Roses” published in IWW newspaper Industrial Solidarity - 1911
(Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology: Originally published in 1964 and long out of print, Rebel Voices remains by far the biggest and best source on IWW history, fiction, songs, art, and lore. This edition includes 40 pages of additional material from the 1998 Charles H. Kerr edition by Fred Thompson and Franklin Rosemont, and a preface by Wobbly organizer Daniel Gross.)
(Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology: Originally published in 1964 and long out of print, Rebel Voices remains by far the biggest and best source on IWW history, fiction, songs, art, and lore. This edition includes 40 pages of additional material from the 1998 Charles H. Kerr edition by Fred Thompson and Franklin Rosemont, and a preface by Wobbly organizer Daniel Gross.)
President Dwight Eisenhower signs Executive Order 10450: Security Requirements for Government Employment. The order listed “sexual perversion” as a condition for firing a federal employee and for denying employment to potential applicants - 1953
A cooling tower for a power plant under construction in Willow Island, West Virginia collapses, killing 51 construction workers in what is thought to be the largest construction accident in U.S. history. OSHA cited contractors for 20 violations, including failures to field test concrete. The cases were settled for $85,000—about $1,700 per worker killed - 1978Friday, April 24, 2015
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Today in Labor History
April 22 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
Songwriter, musician and activist Hazel Dickens dies at age 75. Among her songs: “They’ll Never Keep Us Down” and “Working Girl Blues.” Cultural blogger John Pietaro: "Dickens didn’t just sing the anthems of labor, she lived them. Her place on many a picket line, staring down gunfire and goon squads, embedded her into the cause" - 2011
Songwriter, musician and activist Hazel Dickens dies at age 75. Among her songs: “They’ll Never Keep Us Down” and “Working Girl Blues.” Cultural blogger John Pietaro: "Dickens didn’t just sing the anthems of labor, she lived them. Her place on many a picket line, staring down gunfire and goon squads, embedded her into the cause" - 2011
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
You Are What You Read - Newspaper Humor
1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.
2. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the country.
3. The New York Times is read by people who think they should run the country and who are very good at crossword puzzles.
4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but really understand The New York Times. They do, however, like their statist shown in pie charts.
5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn't mind running the country – if they could find the time – and if they didn't have to leave Southern California to do it.
6. The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country and did a far superior job of it, thank you very much.
7. The New York Daily News is read by people who aren’t too sure who’s running the country and don’t really care as long as they can get a seat on the train.
8. The New York Post is read by people who don’t care who’s running the country as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably while intoxicated.
9. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country but need the baseball scores.
10. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren’t sure there is a country … or that anyone is running it; but, if so, they oppose all that they stand for. There are occasional exceptions if the leaders are Handicapped, minority, feminist, dwarfs, who also happen to be illegal aliens from any other country or galaxy, provided, of course, that they are not Republicans.
Tribune Media Company to Report First Quarter 2015 Financial Results and Host Conference Call
NEW YORK, April 20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Tribune Media Company (NYSE: TRCO) (the "Company") announced it will report financial results for the three months ended March 29, 2015 before the market opens on Friday, May 8, 2015. The Company will conduct a conference call at 8:00 a.m. ET, following the release of its earnings announcement.
A live audio webcast of the call will be available here and on the Investor Relations homepage of Tribune Media's website atwww.tribunemedia.com. The conference call can also be accessed by dialing (domestic) or (international). The confirmation code is 0928075.
An audio webcast replay will be available in the Events & Presentations section of the Tribune Media website. A replay of the call will also be available at (domestic) or (international). The replay access code is 10064374.
The earnings release, presentation deck and other information related to the call will be accessible from the Investor Relations homepage of the Tribune Media website and on the Company's IR mobile application.
Tribune Media Company (NYSE: TRCO) is home to a diverse portfolio of television and digital properties driven by quality news, entertainment and sports programming. Tribune Media is comprised of Tribune Broadcasting's 42 owned or operated local television stations reaching over 50 million households, national entertainment network WGN America, available in approximately 73 million households, Tribune Studios, and Gracenote, one of the world's leading sources of TV and music metadata powering electronic program guides in televisions, automobiles and mobile devices. Tribune Media also includes Chicago's WGN-AM, the national multicast networks Antenna TV and THIS TV. Additionally, the Company owns and manages a significant number of real estate properties across the U.S. and holds other strategic investments in media. For more information please visit www.tribunemedia.com.
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Tuesday Night in the Blogosphere
Michael Higby by artist Wally Wharton
Daily Breeze managing editor: ‘We are stunned’ - Poynter
Gannett names its broadcast spinoff Tegna - Newscast Studio
Politico plans to double its reporting staff to about 500 - The Guardian
Tribune Media communications exec exits under the radar - Robert Feder
Blue Harbour Establishes New Position in Tribune Media - Market Realist
Tribune Media Receives Consensus Recommendation of “Buy” - The Legacy
L.A. Times wins Pulitzers for coverage of California drought and cultural criticism - LAT
Tribune Media CEO Peter Liguori's Pay Rises to $23 Million in 2014 - Hollywood Reporter
Tribune Media Announces Launch of Secondary Offering of Common Stock - CNN Money
Today in Labor History
April 21 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller signs Taylor Law, permitting union organization and bargaining by public employees, but outlawing the right to strike - 1967
(A Primer on American Labor Law is an accessible guide written for nonspecialists—labor and management representatives, students, general practice lawyers, and trade unionists, government officials, and academics from other countries. It covers such topics as the National Labor Relations Act, unfair labor practices, the collective bargaining relationship, dispute resolution, the public sector, and public-interest labor law.)
(A Primer on American Labor Law is an accessible guide written for nonspecialists—labor and management representatives, students, general practice lawyers, and trade unionists, government officials, and academics from other countries. It covers such topics as the National Labor Relations Act, unfair labor practices, the collective bargaining relationship, dispute resolution, the public sector, and public-interest labor law.)
Some 12,500 Goodyear Tire workers strike nine plants in what was to become a 3-week walkout over job security, wage and benefit issues - 1997
Happy Boots
News Conference Extra: Los Angeles Times Publisher
It's the 20th anniversary of the Los Angeles Times' Festival of Books. Times Publisher and Chief Executive Austin Beutner talks with NBC4's Conan Nolan about the importance of books and all the changes at the newspaper since he took the helm last September.
Monday, April 20, 2015
Today in Labor History
April 20 
Nearly 10,000 demonstrators celebrate textile workers’ win of a 10-percent pay hike and grievance committees after a one-month strike, Lowell, Mass. - 1912
Nearly 10,000 demonstrators celebrate textile workers’ win of a 10-percent pay hike and grievance committees after a one-month strike, Lowell, Mass. - 1912
Ludlow massacre: Colorado state militia, using machine guns and fire, kill about 20 people—including 11 children—at a tent city set up by striking coal miners - 1914
An unknown assailant shoots through a window at United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther as he is eating dinner at his kitchen table, permanently impairing his right arm. It was one of at least two assassination attempts on Reuther. He and his wife later died in a small plane crash under what many believe to be suspicious circumstances - 1948
National Association of Post Office Mail Handlers, Watchmen, Messengers & Group Leaders merge with Laborers - 1968
United Auto Workers members end a successful 172-day strike against International Harvester, protesting management demands for new work rules and mandatory overtime provisions - 1980
Saturday, April 18, 2015
Services for Michael Higby
For any friends of Michael Higby , his funeral will be Saturday May 9th at 1:00pm. New
Hope Community Church.
10438 Oro Vista Ave.
Sunland, CA 91040
10438 Oro Vista Ave.
Sunland, CA 91040
I am hopeful that we can all share good memories, and re-live so many of the funny moments that originated in the 1990s Higby era. Please try to dig up any old pictures you may have and bring them.
h/t Jason Ross
Michael Higby, Debbie Cortez-Lopez, and Edward
Randy Economy: Remembering Mike Higby today here in Los Angeles. ...
Randy Economy: Remembering Mike Higby today here in Los Angeles. ...
Sad to hear that Mike Higby has passed away unexpectedly. Mike was a political icon here in Los Angeles and was more than just a political watchdog/reporter/talk show host...Mike was also a kind soul to many of us who were fortunate enough to know him on a personal level. The details of Mike Higby's death have not been fully disclosed but today I ask that all of you take the time to say a Prayer for Mike Higby and his Soul.
Joseph Mailander will be the guest on tonight's radio show.
Sad to hear that Mike Higby has passed away unexpectedly. Mike was a political icon here in Los Angeles and was more than just a political watchdog/reporter/talk show host...Mike was also a kind soul to many of us who were fortunate enough to know him on a personal level. The details of Mike Higby's death have not been fully disclosed but today I ask that all of you take the time to say a Prayer for Mike Higby and his Soul.
Joseph Mailander will be the guest on tonight's radio show.
Today in Labor History
April 18 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
West Virginia coal miners strike, defend selves against National Guard - 1912
After a four-week boycott led by Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., bus companies in New York City agree to hire 200 black drivers and mechanics - 1941Friday, April 17, 2015
City Council Honors Michael Higby
City Council adjourning motion by Council Member Mike Bonin in support of adjourning in honor of Michael Higby in Van Nuys City Hall to-day. Speaking extemporaneously, Bonin acknowledged Higby's sharp criticism of City politics, said that Higby's blog MayorSam had been not only a blog but a forerunner to many other such blogs, and praised Higby for finding a way through communication to engage more people in local politics
h/t Joseph Mailander
Today in Labor History
April 17 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
The Supreme Court holds that a maximum-hours law for New York bakery workers is unconstitutional under the due process clause of the 14th amendment - 1905
An explosion at a West Texas fertilizer plant kills 15 people and injures nearly 300 when 30 tons of highly explosive ammonium nitrate—stored in sheds without sprinkler systems—caught fire. Of those killed, ten were emergency responders - 2013
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Michael Higby Rest in Peace my friend *
As I learn more I will post additional information regarding Michael and his family.
Michael blogged at Mayor Sam's Sister City for many years, and is well known to many elected officials.
David Hernandez spoke with Michael's father to confirm the rumors that he has indeed moved on to heaven.
Michael Higby, 1964-2015.
Joseph Mailander on Michael Higby
The Passing of Michael "Mayor Sam" Higby at 50
Today in Labor History
April 16 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
Employers lock out 25,000 New York City garment workers in a dispute over hiring practices. The Int’l Ladies’ Garment Workers Union calls a general strike; after 14 weeks, 60,000 strikers win union recognition and the contractual right to strike - 1916
Five hundred workers in Texas City, Texas die in a series of huge oil refinery and chemical plant explosions and fires - 1947
An estimated 20,000 global justice activists blockade Washington, D.C., meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund - 2000
April 15 
A. Philip Randolph, civil rights leader and founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, born in Crescent City, Fla. - 1889
A. Philip Randolph, civil rights leader and founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, born in Crescent City, Fla. - 1889
Eight members of the Musicians union die in the sinking of the Titanic. According to survivors, they played their instruments until nearly the end. Five weeks later a concert organized by the union to benefit the musicians' families, held in a theater donated for the evening by impresario Flo Ziegfeld, featured the talents of 500 musicians. The evening ended with a rendering of "Nearer, My God, to Thee," the hymn being played as the ship went down. The union at the time was called the Musical Mutual Protective Union Local 310, the New York affiliate of the American Federation of Musicians - 1912
IWW union Agricultural Workers Organization formed in Kansas City, Mo. - 1915
Teacher unionists gather at the City Club on Plymouth Court in Chicago to form a new national union: the American Federation of Teachers - 1916
Start of ultimately successful six-day strike across New England by what has been described as the first women-led American union, the Telephone Operators Department of IBEW - 1919
Transport Workers Union founded - 1934
The first McDonald’s restaurant opens, in Des Plaines, Ill., setting the stage years later for sociologist Amitai Etzioni to coin the term "McJob." As defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, a McJob is "an unstimulating, low-paid job with few prospects, especially one created by the expansion of the service sector" - 1955Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Today in Labor History
April 14 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
More than 100 Mexican and Filipino farm workers are arrested for union activities, Imperial Valley, Calif. Eight were convicted of “criminal syndicalism” - 1930
John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath published - 1939
The United Steelworkers and the Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers unions merge to form the largest industrial union in North America - 2005
Monday, April 13, 2015
Monday Night in the Blogosphere
The start of the women's elite US Cycling Cup
at Bonelli Park in San Dimas, CA.
Ad blocking is every publisher's problem now - Digiday
Newsweek Europe repackages for future - Editors Weblog
Print Units Rose 3% in the First Quarter - Publishers Weekly
Driver Hurt After Car Crashes Into LA Times Building - CBS
Australian newspapers launch survival campaign - New Kerala
Former News-Press Photographer Sues Paper for Firing Him - Noozhawk
Freelancers are still trying to get paid by Hudsonmod publisher - Romenesko
Analyst Begins Coverage of Tribune at 'Outperform' - Broadcasting and Cable
Writer at Japanese paper receives pay cut after plagiarism allegations - Poynter
Today in Labor History
April 13 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
Int’l Hod Carriers & Building Laborers’ Union (today’s Laborers’ Int’l Union) is founded, as 25 delegates from 23 Local Unions in 17 cities—representing 8,186 Laborers—meet in Washington, D.C. - 1903
A 17-year-old Jimmy Hoffa leads his co-workers at a Kroger warehouse in Clinton, Indiana, in a successful job action: by refusing to unload a shipment of perishable strawberries, they forced the company to give in to their demands. Among other things: the “strawberry boys” had to report to work at 4:30 a.m., stay on the job for 12 hours, and were paid 32¢ an hour—only if growers arrived with berries to unload. Plus, they were required to spend three-fourths of any earnings buying goods from Kroger - 1930
Labor leader and Socialist Party founder Eugene V. Debs is imprisoned for opposing American entry into World War I. While in jail he ran for president, received 1 million votes - 1919
(The Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene V. Debs: Eugene V. Debs was a labor activist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who captured the heart and soul of the nation’s working people. He was brilliant, sincere, compassionate and scrupulously honest. A founder of one of the nation’s first industrial unions, the American Railway Union, he went on to help launch the Industrial Workers of the World—the Wobblies. A man of firm beliefs and dedication, he ran for President of the United States five times under the banner of the Socialist Party, in 1912 earning 6 percent of the popular vote.)
(The Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene V. Debs: Eugene V. Debs was a labor activist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who captured the heart and soul of the nation’s working people. He was brilliant, sincere, compassionate and scrupulously honest. A founder of one of the nation’s first industrial unions, the American Railway Union, he went on to help launch the Industrial Workers of the World—the Wobblies. A man of firm beliefs and dedication, he ran for President of the United States five times under the banner of the Socialist Party, in 1912 earning 6 percent of the popular vote.)Saturday, April 11, 2015
Thursday, April 09, 2015
Wednesday, April 08, 2015
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