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   K_D, 2 Aug 2005 @ 10:57pm

   
   

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   While there may have been various reasons at the start, be it operational (not much space, at the time, at the old Times property) or cultural (those old guys won't get it and we'll be better off on our own in our own separate space down the street), there might have been another reason...Unions. By having them separate (in both operation and structure) they may have avoided having the online folks be automatically covered under collective bargaining of the newsprint side unions. Publishers usually try to avoid hiring a bunch of people in union covered, hard to fire people, jobs, esp on new products with an unclear future. Unions may not be entirely against this because they know that if the new product becomes successful, they may have a chance to flip these jobs towards the union down the line...and they can also use this as negotiating leverage (we won't make a fuss about the new media jobs (for moment) if you give us X now)

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