27th of October 1990 News
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Daily News: The Combatants
Date: 27 October 1990
Michael J. Alvino President, Deliverers Union Michael J. Alvi no, 54 years old, the president of the 700-member Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union, is not happy about the walkout at The Daily News. "I needed a strike this weekend like a hole in the head," he said the other day. Mr. Alvino has a specific reason, a family wedding in Maine. But his irritation expresses the sentiments of most of the employees at The News who are now out of work. "This is New York City," Mr. Alvino said. "It's a union town -- and The Daily News right now is attacking our union, bringing in these hired guns from out of town to take jobs away from my men." Mr. Alvino, who has been president of the drivers union for 16 months, has a reputation for outspokenness. Testifying under immunity at the Federal trial of one of his predecessors, Douglas LaChance, Mr. Alvino readily acknowledged being a conduit for payoffs to Mr. LaChance from News wholesalers who wanted to lay off drivers. Mr. LaChance, the union's president during the 1978 newspaper strike, later was imprisoned for corruption. But it was Mr. Alvino who brought the drivers into the Allied Printing Trades Council, and the drivers are generally acknowledged to be the most powerful of the 10 unions now battling The Daily News. Charles T. Brumback President, Tribune Company Charles T. Brum back, president and chief execu tive of the Trib une Company, which owns The Daily News in New York and The Chicago Tribune, is an ac countant by training who shuns the spotlight and who made his mark in the Tribune organization as a cost cutter, a decisive manager and a tough man on unions. "Union leaders vilify him. Newspaper analysts lionize him. Shareholders are going to love him," said a profile in Crain's Chicago Business magazine just before Mr. Brumback, 62 years old, added the title of chief executive on Aug. 1, taking over from Stanton R. Cook, who remains chairman of the Chicago-based company. Mr. Brumback, who graduated from Princeton in 1950, won a Bronze Star as an Army lieutenant in infantry fighting in Korea. Returning to his hometown of Toledo, Ohio, he studied accounting in graduate school at the University of Toledo while working for Arthur Young & Company. In 1957, he took a job as controller for the Star Sentinel Company in Orlando, Fla. The Tribune Company purchased the newspaper in 1965. Mr. Brumback turned the Orlando paper into a money maker and caught the eye of Chicago headquarters. He was named chief executive of the Florida company in 1976 and in 1981 was brought to Chicago as head of The Chicago Tribune. Mr. Brumback succeeded in breaking three unions at The Tribune in a 1985 strike of pressmen, printers and mailers. He was named president of the parent company on Jan. 1, 1989. James Hoge Publisher, Daily News James Hoge, 54 years old, be came publisher of The Daily News in 1984 after a mercurial career in Chicago journalism in which he became city editor of The Chicago Sun-Times at 29, managing editor at 31 and publisher at 44. He came to The News two years after its parent company, the Tribune Company of Chicago, had nearly closed it and has presided over six years of continuing economic difficulty. Last year he signaled the newspaper's new tough stance toward its unions by retaining the Nashville law firm of King & Ballow to represent it in talks that Mr. Hoge said could determine the survival of the paper. The law firm has frequently been used by companies looking to break unions or vastly renegotiate their contracts with them. He called for renegotiations with the paper's 10 unions that would dramatically revamp work rules and overhaul salaries, benefits and other compensation so that the company could save what has been estimated as more than $100 million annually. Mr. Hoge grew up on Park Avenue and was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale. He is married to Sharon King Hoge, a former television consumer reporter, and has three children from an earlier marriage. His brother Warren is an assistant managing editor of The Times. He has been quoted as saying, "I want to be the man who has on his epitaph that he saved The Daily News." Barry F. Lipton President, Newspaper Guild Barry F. Lipton, president of the Newspaper Guild of New York since 1985, rose to power during a period of bitter factionalism and financial difficulties within the union. He was renominated on Thursday night for another two-year term. Previously an advertising salesman for The New York Times, Mr. Lipton became active in the union as a grievance officer. In 1982, he was elected to the full-time post of secretary-treasurer, which led to the presidency. Mr. Lipton, 48 years old, is separated and has one son, and lives in East Hills, L.I. His local has about 5,500 members working at 33 newspapers and magazines in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. The guild's jurisdiction is broad, covering most white-collar jobs, including those in the news, advertising, circulation and business departments. Mr. Lipton has encouraged cooperation with leaders of unions in the industry that represent various production and delivery departments. Relations between such unions in the past were sometimes characterized by rivalry, at times including crossing each other's picket lines.
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The News Strike Shows Shifting Labor Relations
Date: 28 October 1990
By James Barron
James Barron
With nonunion workers crossing picket lines in large numbers, the strike at The Daily News has underscored the new realities for labor and management in New York City. Labor experts say these realities illustrate why, 10 or 20 or 30 years ago, the strike would not have unfolded the way it has in what was long considered to be one of the nation's last big union towns. "There are no union towns any more," said Esther Fuchs, a professor of political science at Barnard College, who is completing a book on labor relations in New York and Chicago. She and other labor specialists, as well as some labor leaders, said that changing public attitudes have played the largest part in why that is so. The air-traffic controllers' strike in 1981, crushed by President Reagan, gave credibility to antiunion attitudes that had been growing a long time.
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Daily News Asks Strikers to Return to Jobs
Date: 28 October 1990
By David E. Pitt
David Pitt
The Daily News, trying to produce and distribute a Sunday newspaper with nonunion workers, announced yesterday that an undetermined number of its 2,200 striking employees could reclaim their jobs tomorrow if they cross picket lines. The News, the nation's second-largest metropolitan daily after The Los Angeles Times, said that in accordance with Federal labor law, unionized workers whose jobs had not already been given to permanent nonunion replacements would be entitled to return to work at their regular salaries and working conditions.
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DAILY NEWS DROPS UNION EMPLOYEES
Date: 27 October 1990
By David E. Pitt
David Pitt
The Daily News, struck by nine of its 10 unions, began dismissing most of its 2,400 unionized workers yesterday and then struggled to publish without them, gathering an army of nonunion employees, some from across the country, to write, edit, print and deliver the nation's second-largest metropolitan daily. With scores of replacement drivers, pressmen, machinists and others already on the job, officials at the newspaper said more nonunion workers -- including reporters, editors and photographers -- were being flown in from newspapers in Florida and Illinois owned by the Tribune Company, the corporate parent of The News.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 27 October 1990
International 2-5 Israel's report on the shooting deaths of 21 Palestinians in Jerusalem criticized senior Israeli police commanders for being unprepared but concluded that the police who fired the shots were blameless. Page 1 Excerpts from the Israeli commission's report 5 Saudi Arabia remains committed against Iraq, King Fahd said, ordering an end to further conciliatory-sounding remarks to Iraq like those made earlier this week by his brother, the Defense Minister. 4 Secretary of State James Baker will go to Saudi Arabia soon to counter Saddam Hussein's efforts to split the coalition confronting Iraq and to coordinate with the Saudis the next steps in resolving the crisis. 4 A warning of a terrorist attack against a passenger ship in the eastern Mediterranean was issued by the State Department. The warning was unusually explicit. 4 A new Security Council resolution declaring Iraq responsible for financial losses caused by the invasion and ordering governments to present evidence of war crimes moved close to approval. 5 Pamphlet tells American soldiers what to say and not say 4 Pakistan's election was mostly fair, and any irregularities that did occur did not significantly affect the outcome, an international observer delegation said. 3 East German Communist officials illegally transferred $70 million to Moscow, former party leaders admitted. Two officials were arrested in connection with the incident. 3 President Gorbachev visited Spain on the first of a series of trips abroad aimed at drumming up Western support for his program of economic and political change. 3 Konin Journal: Poland's uncharted campaign trail 2 National 6-10, 24 New standards for health insurance purchased by 23 million elderly Americans to supplement coverage provided through Medicare were established by House and Senate negotiators. 1 News analysis: The tax compromise seems at first glance to revive the comatose tax shelter industry, but experts say it will make it more difficult to exploit tax gimmicks. 1 The budget deal fell short of its goal of reducing the Federal deficit by $500 billion over five years. As votes on the plan neared, lawmakers found the deal would cut $490 billion. 8 The budget deficit was $220.4 billion for 1990, just under the record of $221.2 billion in 1986, the Treasury Department announced. The deficit was 45 percent higher than in 1989. 8 Now President Bush hits the trail "Harry Truman-style" 9 A tentative child care measure was approved by House and Senate negotiators. The plan would provide grants to states to subsidize care programs and extend tax credits for low-income families with children. 10 The 101st Congress lurches toward adjourment -- in a hurry 9 Major legislation moves ahead in both houses of Congress 9 An agreement on aviation legislation was reached by White House and Congressional negotiators that would eliminate most of the airlines' noisier passenger jets from the skies by the turn of the century. 1 Pilots who flew jet while intoxicated are sentenced to prison 6 Mayor Marion Barry was sentenced by a Federal judge to six months in prison and a year on probation for his conviction on a misdemeanor charge of possessing cocaine. 1 The Minnesota gubernatorial race took a strange twist when the Republican candidate, Jon Grunseth, called a news conference to announce his withdrawal amid charges of sexual misdeeds, then changed his mind. 6 A repair job on the Hubble telescope by space shuttle astronauts is being considered by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which faces pressure from astronomers to fix the $1.5 billion telescope. 7 Scientists say they have grown hair in a test tube 24 Regional 25-28 The Daily News struggled to publish as it began dismissing the members of nine unions that decided to strike. An army of nonunion writers, editors, pressmen and drivers was flown in from across the country. 1 News analysis: The Daily News had been hoping for and perhaps even trying to provoke a strike that the paper's labor leaders had sought desparately to avoid. 1 Daily News reporters caught between labor and management 26 Layoffs of up to 35,000 workers could be needed if the city keeps its commitment for a 5.5 percent raise for teachers and gives anything comparable to other workers, the Dinkins administration warned. 1 The Board of Education agreed to cut the full $94 million from its budget, as requested by Mayor Dinkins. School officials have said the cuts could mean hundreds of layoffs and reductions of some programs. 25 After spending $1 million, Governor Cuomo still has $5 million 27 The Dime Savings Bank reports loss and suspends dividends 31 A dress code at a Brooklyn school received a hearty endorsement from the people it affects the most: the students. Frank Mickens, the principal at Boys and Girls High School, wants all boys to wear ties. 25 C. Vernon Mason's request to be defendant's lawyer is rejected 27 Hempstead High School was closed because of a botched asbestos-removal program. Students in the Long Island school district have been forced to attend split sessions in the district's middle school. 25 The race for Jim Florio's old seat in New Jersey's First Congressional District ought to belong to Bob Andrews, the Democrat, but his opponent, Dan Mangini, is gaining ground by running against Mr. Florio. 25 Census workers to revisit homes falsely counted in New Jersey 27 Karpov has advantage as seventh game of match adjourns 28 Business Digest 31 Arts/Entertainment "Godfather III" produces unrest 11 Jersey Symphony trims season 11 Theater: "Polygraph" 12 Film: "Graveyard Shift" 12 Music: "Un Ballo in Maschera" 11 An anniversary for de Larrocha 13 Italian contemporary festival 15 Clurman's New York Concert Singers 15 10,000 Maniacs retrospective 17 Roy Hargrove, jazz trumpeter 17 Dance: Rebecca Kelly troupe 14 JoAnn Fregalette Jansen 14 Books: Poetry by William Jay Smith and James Dickey 16 Consumer's World 48 How to pay the bills when you can't The storm over check printing Coping with lighting for safety Obituaries William S. Paley, ex-chairman of CBS Inc. 1 Major (Mule) Holley, bassist 28 Joseph Johnson, headed endowment for peace research 28 Sports Basketball: Coleman passes physical 45 Knicks need consistency from Wilkins 45 Boxing: "Other guy" now champion 43 Column: Anderson on the fight 43 Football: Castoffs find home with Giants 43 Hofstra a Division III terror 45 Hockey: Gretzky gets 2,000th point 43 Horse Racing: Gorgeous scratched 43 Editorials/Letters/Op-Ed Editorials 22 Escalation, 1990 style Cleaner air, at last AIDS, abortion and fairness N.Y. elections bury democracy Letters 22 Russell Baker: Ethicizationism 23 Flora Lewis: Two big cities 23 Beatriz Manz: In Guatemala, no one is safe 23 Josh Zinner: Not even Guatemala's children are safe 23 Peter D. Salins: New York City will rise again 23
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BMW Lifts Prices
Date: 27 October 1990
AP
BMW of North America Inc. said its 1991 cars would cost an average 3.6 percent more than comparably equipped 1990 models. All of the West German-made luxury-performance cars will be covered by a four-year, 50,000-mile limited warranty, the company said. Prices for 1991 BMW cars range from $19,900 for the 318i to $73,600 for the 850i.
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Polaroid and Kodak Challenge Figures
Date: 27 October 1990
The Polaroid Corporation and the Eastman Kodak Company filed challenges yesterday to the calculations made by a United States District Court judge in establishing that Kodak should pay Polaroid $909.5 million for infringing its instant photography patents. Polaroid argued that a correct calculation of Kodak's liability based on Judge A. David Mazzone's findings would result in Polaroid receiving an additional $173 million. Kodak said that correcting what it described as "clerical errors" in the tabulation would result in a $48 million reduction in its liability. The motions do not preclude either company from appealing the basic legality of the earlier damages finding, which both are expected to do. They will have 30 days from the time Judge Mazzone rules on yesterday's motions to file such appeals.
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Into Management Hands; Misjudgment and Accident Come Together To Force Strike Unwanted by News Unions
Date: 27 October 1990
By Alex S. Jones
Alex Jones
The strike by unions at The Daily News is just what the paper's management had been hoping for, and from the union perspective, even trying to provoke, but it is a disaster for the paper's labor leaders, who had sought desperately to avoid a strike if at all possible. Because of what appears to have been a combination of accident and misjudgment by the unions and calculation on the part of management, union leaders found themselves forced to call a strike, even though they realized that doing so played into management's hands by allowing the paper to hire a nonunion work force of permanent replacements.
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Ball Loses Bid For Can Maker
Date: 27 October 1990
Peter Kiewit Sons' Inc. today scrapped an agreement to sell Continental Can Europe to the Ball Corporation because of what the companies called a lack of bank financing for which they blamed recent market turmoil. The tentative sale was announced in July. Ball said it was acquiring 33 European metal packaging plants from Continental Can, which would have given it a foothold in one of the world's most rapidly expanding markets. Continental was to have received $625 million in cash and $400 million in stock, giving it a 29 percent stake in Ball, the fifth-largest producer of beer and soft drink cans in the United States. But the deal was scrapped today, the companies said in a joint statement. "Ball has not yet arranged financing, and the certainty of closing the transaction on the agreed-upon terms and time frame have become compromised," the statement said. Ball still plans to acquire the remaining interest in its 50 percent owned Ball-Incon Glass Packaging Corporation joint venture. In that deal, also announced in July and scheduled to be completed by the end of the year, Ball will pay $65 million in cash to its joint venture partner, the Holland-American Investment Corporation Ball's stock fell $1.125 today, to $28.50, on the New York stock Exchange.
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COMPANY NEWS;
Henley Weighs Selling Wheelabrator Stake
Date: 27 October 1990
By Gregory A. Robb
Gregory Robb
The Henley Group Inc., a New Hampshire conglomerate with an ever-shifting set of components, said today that it might sell its entire 4.2 percent stake in Wheelabrator Technologies Inc.
Both companies are based in Hampton, N.H., and they share many officers and directors. Wheelabrator is a leading developer and operator of waste-to-energy plants.
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