Los Angeles Times Pressmens 20 Year Club

Dear Brothers and Sisters:

We will be hosting two Nomination meetings on Sunday January 4, 2009 at the
Crowne Plaza / Commerce Casino.

6121 Telegraph Rd
Commerce, CA 90040
(323) 728-3600

The meeting times will be:
10:00 am to 11:00 am
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm

The purpose of this meeting is to nominate the officers, executive board members and shop stewards. There will not be any voting taking place and is only for casting your
Nominations.

In order to be nominated for one of the following positions you should be present at one of the meetings. If you cannot attend and you want to nominate someone, put it on paper, sign it and have it delivered by someone who will be attending the meeting.

President

Executive Vice President

Vice President, Los Angeles

Vice President, Orange County

Shop Stewards
3 in L A (1 per shift)
3 in Orange County (1 per shift)

Secretary Treasure

Recording Secretary

Executive Board Member L A

Executive Board Member Orange County

Sincerely and Fraternally,

Mike Huggins – Marty Keegan

Hollywood Producer Brings Christmas to Homeboys

Boyle Heights native-turned Hollywood producer, Brian Quintana, returned to his birthplace today to bring Christmas cheer to Homeboy Industries. The Los Angeles based charity was founded by Father Gregory Boyle and is perhaps the nation's most recognized center for gang-impacted and at-risk youth.

Quintana enlisted companies he does business with to compile a Holiday gift bag that has Hollywood's charitable community buzzing. And that is no easy task in any economy. Warner Bros. Entertainment donated the new Batman DVD, Universal Studios provided the Mummy DVD, Disney furnished the Wall-E DVD, the Spectacle Group supplied the new Guns N' Roses CD, Warner Records contributed an assortment of CDs, Joe Francis gave very tasteful Girls Gone Wild caps, Coffee Bean tossed in $5 gift cards, OPI delivered nail polish, Shorty's and Planet Salon shelled out the cosmetics, and M&M/Mars Inc. dished out the sweets. In total Quintana provided over $30,000.00 worth of merchandise to 500 youth from three charities.

Quintana is currently co-producing Superman:Man of Steel for Warner Bros. Pictures. "I am grateful for my success and believe it's my duty to give back," stated Quintana. Quintana once shared a one bedroom home with eleven family members most of whom were gang affiliated. At age fifteen Oprah Winfrey's "A Better Chance" program facilitated him attending The Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut before graduating from UC Berkeley. His Hotchkiss scholarship was provided by none other than M&M/Mars Chairman Forrest E. Mars, Jr.. Prior to producing, Quintana served President Bill Clinton, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and countless other politicians.

As a member of the Honorary Committee, Quintana enlisted his Hollywood colleagues to support Homeboy's 20th Anniversary dinner earlier this year. Hollywood supporters of that event included Warner Bros. Entertainment, Dreamworks SKG, Wendy & Barry Meyer, Katie Mc Grath & JJ Abrams, Carol & Frank Biondi, Lynda & Stewart Resnick, Kirk Kerkorian, Anjelica Huston, Herb Alpert, Eva Longoria, Martin Sheen, LAPD Chief William J. Bratton, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

To make a Holiday pledge or for more information Quintana asks that you log onto www.homeboy-industries.org.

Monday, December 22, 2008

HowStuffWorks Show: Paper Pulp

Learn the process for making paper pulp in this clip from the "HowStuffWorks" show on Discovery Channel.

Monday Morning News

Pressmen Bill Conover and Keith Hutchins

Los Angeles Times followup - Jeff Jarvis
The case for and against Sam Zell - Fortune
The Examiner Cuts Monday Edition - KMBC - TV
2008 total: 15,572+ newspaper jobs lost - Paper Cuts
The L.A. Times had not yet sent me a check - Joel Stein
I think big-city newspapers are not long for this world - USC
Tribune Co. Screws With the Yule Log - Writing for the Media
Sun-Times to close Plainfield printing plant - Chicago Tribune
Media big wigs that have lost the most money this year - Tina Dupuy
In Denver, a Web Site Tries to Save a Newspaper - New York Times
LATimes.com Economically Sustainable? I don’t think so - Meta Printer

JOUR M02 Writing and Reporting for the Media: Creditors Picked in Tribune Filing

From the Chicago Tribune:

Tribune Co.'s official committee of unsecured creditors will include Wall Street banks and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.

JPMorgan Chase Bank NA, Merrill Lynch Capital Corp. and Deutsche Bank National Trust also won seats on the eight-member committee of unsecured creditors, which represents the interest of all holding debt not backed by collateral.

Tribune Co., the Chicago-based owner of the Chicago Tribune, filed for bankruptcy Dec. 8, less than a year after real estate billionaire Sam Zell took it private as an employee-owned company in an $8.3 billion deal that saddled it with debt. Most of the company's $13 billion in debt isn't guaranteed by Tribune Co.'s newspapers and broadcasting stations.

> Newspaper Guild Local Named to Creditor Committee in Tribune Bankruptcy Filing

> Sun-Times Media Group: We'll Return to Profitability At A 'Fraction' Of Size

JOUR M02 Writing and Reporting for the Media: Creditors Picked in Tribune Filing

Sunday, December 21, 2008

TV Ad Support for L.A.Times

Doug K. Brown's demo reel for TV ads and trailers.

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Saturday, December 20, 2008

Saturday Afternoon Links

LAT Olympic Pressmen Ed Santos and Mike Brierley

Newspaper e-Editions, I don’t get it - Meta Printer
Can the LA Times turn off its presses? - Jeff Jarvis
There Are Cartoon Columnists at LAT - Tina Dupuy
Los Angeles Times Poll fades to black - LAObserved
Denver Newspaper issues Jan. 16 ultimatum to unions - RMN
Discontinue Delivering the Monday Paper - Herald and News
Seattle Times tells 500 employees to take 5 days off - Crosscut
No denial of latest Los Angeles Times cuts rumor - Kevin Roderick
2009 Forecasts Offer Little To Smile About - Newspaper Death Watch
City Of Los Angeles Now More Corrupt Than Chicago! - Brady Westwater

Easy-Writer: Book Review-The Soloist

By Kanani Fong

Last year, in the Los Angeles Times, columnist Steve Lopez chronicled his accidental fall into the life of a homeless man who played Beethoven, Saint Saëns, Mozart and Brahms on a battered violin while standing near a tunnel in downtown Los Angeles. Lopez's column became the number one read for me, so engrossing was his account of his friendship with a man the world will get to know, former Julliard student, cellist, and schizophrenic, Nathaniel Anthony Ayers.

Entire article can be read here at Easy-Writer.

Friday, December 19, 2008

Save Our Trade: Officer Nominations Meeting

By Ronnie Pineda

Meetings will be held at the Crown Plaza/Commerce Casino Hotel once again. There will be two meeting times for convienience. Those times are 10:00 am to 11:00 am and again at 1:00pm to 2:00pm.

The meetings will be held in the "Diamond Room" See you all there.

In Solidarity.

Save Our Trade: Officer Nominations Meeting

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Thursday Night News

Nat Lavender Long Time Power Plant Worker at the LA Times

We're changing with times - The Detroit News
Mediabistro's Twitter Resolutions - Tina Dupuy
One year ago today i got a new job - Tony Pierce
One View on Detroit Delivery Plan: 'Madness' - E&P
Towels, and how to throw them in - Free From Editors
All I want for Christmas is my Tribune - Chicago Tribune
McClatchy reacts to NYT piece on DC bureaus - Romenesko
Brave News World - The Detroit Newspaper Experiment - Meta Printer
If a metropolitan newspaper suddenly ceased to publish - Seeking Alpha
When newspaper circulation declines, puppies pay - Los Angeles Times

Video twins chase the news

Twins Howard and Austin Raishbrook cruise the streets of Los Angeles in search of money-making news footage.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Wednesday Night Links

Operations Employees Ron Williams, Tony Dominguez, and Ron Bagwell

What are Twitter friends for? - Jim Macmillan
The Fourth Plantation - Baltimore City Paper
600 jobs cut at Sun Media - The Globe and Mail
Don't Tune Out All the Media Stocks - Motley Fool
Tax Impact of Tribune Bankruptcy - The ESOP Blog
Red Sox stake could fetch NY Times nice haul - Reuters
LAX Hilton Hit with Class Action Suit - Business Journal
Now a Word From Our Pundits - Newspaper Death Watch
Hoffa Says Tribune Workers Should Come First - Broadcast Union News
Detroit papers will reduce home delivery to 3 days a week - James Rainey

California Snow Storm

Many of my colleagues reside in the Antelope Valley and Apple Valley, with the heavy snow fall this morning I’m wondering how many will be snowed in and unable to transverse the freeway system into Los Angeles? Cesar Calderon sent these photographs over at 9 this morning from his home in Palmdale, but he mentioned he was on vacation this week and was not concerned about getting through the snow to the Los Angeles Times. Lets hope the others living in the high desert are as fortunate, or at least have chains on hand.

Visit the Los Angeles Times Blog, LA Now for additional snow coverage

Save Our Trade: Courtesy Call with a Threat on the Side

By Ronnie Pineda

Keith and I both received a "courtesy call" from Russ yesterday in which he wanted to point out section 3.1 in the contract which is copied in it's entirety below. After reading it again I knew where he was headed based on previous conversations pertaining to our performance and specifically start times since last weeks ratification. In yesterdays conversation he had with Keith and I, he claimed to have evidence that certain individuals are violating the agreement in Article 3.1 No Strike/No Lockout and that he will exercise the language in paragraph (c) and terminate any employee who "he thinks" is participating in activities that violate the language in the opening paragraph (a).

I suggest, no, I INSIST everyone read it very carefully because Russ is making a serious threat. Several operators are currently suspected of such activity and Keith, to both of our surprise is one of them. I cannot accept this accusation against our operators especially Keith simply because we share the same work ethics and do not take our trade or our jobs for granted. At the time of this post the names of the other operators in L.A. was unbeknownst to me and I can only say, no one became an operator or continues to be one if they didn't share those same work ethics.

Russ asked if the Union sanctioned a "Work to Rule" implying that everyone was told to do their job by the book to cause an intentional work slowdown. First of all, Russ should want all of us to do our jobs by the book for obvious reasons such as safety, quality and efficiency. The assumption on his part that the Union or anyone else has called for this type of activity is totally false and sanctioned by no one. There is no way I, or anyone from the International would ask any of our Brothers and Sisters to jeopardize their career by intentionally causing delays to the production of our newspaper in violation of the agreement below. Our priority, I told Russ was to get a quality paper out on the street, on time. To do otherwise would be like shooting ourselves in the foot.

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Mack Reed demonstrates surface at BarCamp

Mack Reed, a legendary two-fisted former investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times turned high-tech whiz for speakTECH, demonstrates Microsoft's "Surface" application at the BarCampLA in October 2008. The event took place at Mahalo HQ in Santa Monica.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Tuesday Afternoon News

Pressman Jonathan DeLeon

Singleton in the Times - Gary Scott
Newspapers Don't Matter - TJ Sullivan
Panic In Detroit - Newspaper Death Watch
The newsroom as classroom opens - Jeff Jarvis
LA Times' New Film Critic Speaks Out... - Nikki Finke
Journalism is a little like playing the ponies - Mark Lacter
Bloggers Should Take Lessons From Rock Stars - Luke Ford
2008: The Year in Media Errors and Corrections - Regret the Error
SD Union Tribune Halts Pension Contributions - Voice of San Diego
As newspaper industry bleeds, Enquirer tries to hold on - Kevin Osborne

Tribune Press Release

Ed Wilson “Sells Out” as New Tribune Chief Revenue Officer!

Hopes to "Sell Out" Inventory to Help Advertisers Move Products and
Grow Tribune’s Operating Cash Flow

Takes Job At Local Starbucks As First Step

CHICAGO, December 15, 2008 -- Tribune Company today appointed Ed Wilson as chief revenue officer with responsibility for growing the company’s publishing, broadcasting and interactive revenues. He remains president of Tribune Broadcasting, overseeing the company’s 23 television stations, WGN America, and WGN Radio. His appointment is effective immediately.

"In the ten months he’s been here, Ed has rebuilt Tribune Broadcasting and completely changed its culture," said Randy Michaels, Tribune’s chief operating officer. "His eye for talent and his determination have created an environment that rewards innovation and hard work, and delivers results for our advertising customers -- I’m confident he’ll have the same impact across the rest of the company."

Wilson joined Tribune after serving as president of the Fox Television Network from 2004 to 2008. In this position, he was responsible for network sports and entertainment sales, legal standards and practices, and Fox’s 200 affiliated stations.

"We’ve really stepped up our sales efforts this year and we’re seeing solid results, but we’ve got to do even more for our advertisers," said Wilson. "That means developing new products and new, innovative ways of reaching audiences across all our platforms -- internet, broadcasting and print. It means being aggressive and smart."

Known for his ability to work long hours on little sleep, Wilson also will man the night-owl shift at the Starbucks down the street from Tribune Tower. "With this third job, I’ll have access to free coffee," Wilson said, "which means I’ll have the stamina and energy for my two jobs at Tribune -- and I’ll contribute a portion of my Starbucks’ paycheck to the company as a way of kick-starting new-revenue generation."

Prior to working with Fox, Wilson served in executive positions with NBC and CBS. In 2000, he helped found NBC Enterprises and served as its first president. In that capacity he supervised foreign and domestic syndication, merchandising, licensing, music and publishing, as well as domestic and foreign co-productions and co-ventures. Prior to that, Wilson was president and CEO of CBS Enterprises and Entertainment.

In 1994, Wilson founded his own syndication company, MaXaM Entertainment, in partnership with A.H. Belo Corp. The company was sold to CBS in January 1996. His career began in 1980 as a sales trainee for Viacom. Let’s face it, the man’s driven.

Wilson was born and raised in Rison, Ark., and he is a graduate of the University of Arkansas. He is married and has two children.

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Monday, December 15, 2008

God Rest Ye Weary Journalists

A humorous look at the state of journalism today just in time for the holidays. All in good fun. And by someone who believes firmly in the ability of the Web to save our industry.

Union victory in North Carolina

The Real News Network
After 16 year battle, workers vote to join union at world's largest meat packing plant

Save Our Trade: Local Officer Nominations Meeting

By Ronnie Pineda

Clear your calenders for Sunday January 4, 2009 (time and place to follow) so you can attend the meeting and nominate the Brothers and Sisters you would like to serve on our New Local's Executive Board.

The positions we will be seeking nominees for are as follows:

1 President- to preside over the local and the executive board.

2 Vice President(s) one from each shop to represent their respective shop and assist the President in operating the Local.

1 Recording Secretary to record minutes of our meetings.

Secretary Treasurer to oversee the funds and resources of our Local

6 Shop Stewards 3 in each shop, 1 on each shift to enforce the contract and assist with member/management issues in the shops and also investigating and filing grievances when necessary.

I encourage everyone to participate in this process, this is democracy in action, be a part of it.

In Solidarity.

Save Our Trade: Local Officer Nominations Meeting

Iraqi Throws Shoes at Bush

An Iraqi man throws a shoe at President George W. Bush during a new conference with Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008, in Baghdad. A man threw two shoes at Bush, one after another, during the news conference. Bush ducked both throws, and neither man was hit.

Rainy Monday News

The Blogging Pressman meets Zuma Dogg

Sam Zell is a douche - William Lobdell
What Happened to “Tell Zell”? - Patterico
Your Subscription Has Run Out - Tina Dupuy
The Day the Newspaper Died - Splice Today
The Lowdown on Motown - Newspaper Death Watch
News About News, in 140 Characters - New York Times
Annenberg Open Forum on the Tribune Bankruptcy - WFTM
Singleton asks unions for new talks - Rocky Mountain News
Courage in the face of danger -- and bankruptcy - James Rainey
Another microscale investigation by the LA Times - Joseph Mailander

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Los Angeles Times on Twitter

As the Los Angeles Times expands its online presence with alternative communication tools, such as Twitter, FaceBook, Flickr, and YouTube, the online edition will offer optional means of dispensing the news. This will attract younger readers that are un-aware of the online edition of the local newspaper. If you're not using Twitter click on any of the Los Angeles Times Twitter feeds below for a taste of what is offered from your favorite newspaper.

LOS ANGELES TIMES TWITTER FEEDS

Los Angeles Times @latimes

General News @latimesbreaking

California/Local @latimeslocal

Top of the Ticket Blog @latimestot

National News @latimesnational

Business @latimesbiz

Entertainment @latimesent

Arts/Entertainment @envelope

Living @latimesimage

World News @latimesworld

Sports @latimessports

Travel @latimestravel

Most E-mailed @latimesmost

The Fabulous Forum @latsportsblog NEW

Meal Periods

Q. Can my employer require that I stay on its premises during my meal period?

A. Yes, your employer can require that you remain on its premises during your meal period, even if you are relieved of all work duties. However if that occurs, you are being denied your time for your own purposes and in effect remain under the employer's control and thus, the meal period must be paid. Minor exceptions to this general rule exist under IWC Order 5-2001 regarding healthcare workers. Pursuant to the Industrial Welfare Commission Wage Orders, if you are required to eat on the premises, a suitable place for that purpose must be designated. "Suitable" means a sheltered place with facilities available for securing hot food and drink or for heating food or drink, and for consuming such food and drink.

Save Our Trade: We Want Our Lunch Breaks!

By Ronnie Pineda

Management continues to violate the law as a result of changes currently taking place in our shops. You would think that a plan was in place prior to ratification to insure these changes were smooth and would not have an adverse effect on our operation. It appears that these decisions are not being made to be in compliance with the contract but, rather as blatant punishment for exercising our rights to form a union. We will not ignore these violations and intend on taking these complaints to the Hour and Wage Commission and file charges seeking damages for the lost meal and rest periods. The dollar amount will continue to rise with each lunch and rest period missed. My initial estimates have the dollar amount owed to our shops is close to $10,000.00 already. Get out the checkbook Sam!

Brother Banuelos again has provided the research to educate ourselves on the laws we are currently basing our complaints upon. Thanks again Vic! The information Vic has for us pertains to lunches and missed lunches. Working through your lunch can only be permitted by "MUTUAL CONSENT" so if you want to go to lunch, you must be allowed to. You can only work through lunch by mutual agreement PERIOD. This information is the same for us as it is for management and there is no grey area.

The source of this information below can be found here:http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/FAQ_MealPeriods.htm

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Save Our Trade: We Want Our Lunch Breaks!

Saturday, December 13, 2008

UCLA Undie Run

Every finals week, UCLA students run through campus in their underwear to blow off some steam. We caught the highlights of the latest run. Video by Adam Rose. Music by The Pleasant Return. To uncover more news about UCLA, check out www.latimes.com/bruins

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