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Last week's headline in the Philadelphia Bulletin carried a double meaning: it was jubilant-and it was printed...
Unions help save the Bulletin...
...facing a shutdown of the paper, which has lost $31.2 million since 1979-a third of it this year. Said Don Salvucci, chief negotiator for the pressmen's union, it was a question of "letting the ship sink or putting some people in a lifeboat." To keep the Bulletin afloat, 113 union and 73 nonunion jobs were eliminated. The 1,900 full-time employees remaining on staff are making various sacrifices, depending upon their position. Pressmen, for the most part, will no longer receive bonus pay for overtime hours. Paper handlers and composing-room workers have accepted...
...grim dispatches have come one after another, like casualty reports from the front lines. First the Washington Star announced it was closing. A few days later, the Philadelphia Bulletin gave its unions until this week to accept $5 million in contract concessions; otherwise it, too, would shut down. Now the New York Daily News has announced that its year-old afternoon paper, Tonight, will stop publication on Aug. 28. Thus was written the latest chapter in a two-decade-old story of failure in the afternoon, this time with the loss of 320 jobs on the nation's largest...
...There's never been a paper that has turned around after the ad share has sunk as low as the Bulletin's." Perhaps. But the Bulletin is going to try. At week's end the paper's management and unions were discussing ways to cut costs. Says Hayden: "If we didn't think it was a sound plan, we'd just close the doors...