Star Tribune – “Deplorable treatment of employees by management.”

Pros

Some of my coworkers were very talented and excellent people to work with.

Cons

Management has no regard what so ever for their employees only their investors. People who had devoted there entire careers to the company had their jobs off-shored and given a shameful severance pay. They were told that they could reapply for their former jobs at a pathetic salary but if they were hired they would have to pay the severance back! This kind of scenario was typical of management's solution to their declining market share. The solution for all their problems was to cut costs, when it should have been to be creative and search out new ways to generate income. The result of this policy was to loose even more of their client base by producing a substandard product and alienate any future customers. They declared bankruptcy in September 2009 (partly to sever any existing union contracts).

Advice to Senior Management

The paper should be owned locally by people who have a stake in not only the success of the paper as an investment, but also, as an institution that benefits the community with jobs and ACCURATE and UNBIASED news reporting.