| Questions and answers on newspaper fight
A: On one side was The Seattle Times Co., owner of The Times and five smaller dailies in Eastern Washington and Maine. The Blethen family, which has owned the paper since 1896, controls 50.5 percent of the company's voting shares. Sacramento, Calif.-based newspaper chain McClatchy owns the other 49.5 percent. On the other side, from New York: The Hearst Corp., owner of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer since 1921. The P-I is part of Hearst's empire of 12 dailies, eight weeklies, 30 TV and radio stations, more than three dozen U.S. and British magazines, and a wide-ranging collection of cable and Internet investments. Q: What were the two companies fighting over? A: In the narrowest sense, it was a contract dispute over the joint-operating agreement (JOA) linking the two newspapers since 1983.
Richland County Sheriff's Department sets up arbitration option ...
(Richland County) March 29, 2007 - The first class of youth arbitrators has graduated. Those 19 graduates are the start of a program designed to give students who are first-time offenders an alternative to the criminal justice system. For students who commit a non-violent offense and take responsibility for it, the program requires they atone for what they've done during a 90-day period. They may be asked to perform community service, make monetary restitution, charitable donations, educational field trips, tutoring, counseling, etc. If the youth successfully completes the program, then no charges are filed. The citizen-volunteers who completed the 21-hour training class will conduct arbitration hearings and determine guidelines the offenders must follow for restitution and restoration.
Gonzalez responds to no-confidence referendum
In his second interview since hearing of the Sacramento State Faculty Senate's decision to hold a no-confidence referendum, President Alexander Gonzalez spoke to The State Hornet about his initial reaction to the referendum and what he said are common misconceptions about the administration and his presidential track record.
Gonzalez said the referendum was developed due to a lack of campus understanding.
"There was convergence of a lot of factors," Gonzalez said. "Just the atmosphere of going through contract negotiations, the budget deficit and the lack of understanding of the budget…all of that contributed to the anger that is out there. Anger that is, in my opinion, misplaced."
President of the Sac State chapter of the California Faculty Association Cecil Canton said that Gonzalez's statement couldn't be further from the truth.
Details of sexual harassment allegations revealed in report
GALESBURG - Three affidavits filed with the Chicago District office of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission allege Knox County State's Attorney John Pepmeyer verbally and sexually harassed two employees and attempted to intimidate a third. All three petitioners are women and work in the Knox County State's Attorney's office. They are represented by private attorneys Barry Barash and Anthony Vaupel of the firm Barash and Vaupel, LLC. The EEOC complaints detail the sexual harassment allegations referred to in two union grievances filed on March 20 by workers in the state's attorney's office. Members of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 31 also have filed three grievances charging a hostile work environment, two for unfair labor practices and one related to Pepmeyer's internal investigation of the state's attorney's office.
Dispute resolution procedures are failing, says DTI
Workplace dispute resolution procedures are flawed and have caused poor results, according to a review (pdf) commissioned by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). The review has called for the complete repeal of the current procedures. Though Michael Gibbons, who conducted the review commissioned by DTI minister Alistair Darling, said the 2004 Dispute Resolution Regulations were well intentioned, he said they had failed. .
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