Hicklin said he will hire back an unspecified number of editors on a contract basis into a new company he is founding called Grand Editorial. It will operate the magazine as a contractor for Here Media, sister company of Regent Entertainment Inc., which acquired Out in 2008.
Capital.
Hi, you're fired.
That's how the gay press works...
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Isn't this just the sort of thing bosses do under capitalism as it operates in this country? - Get rid of permanent workers (for whom NI has to be paid and who get paid holidays, and suchlike) and then re-employ them as self-employed people on limited contracts?
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, much like the American poor screaming against anything like a National health Service, workers in these precarious situations still howl against unions...
^ Yup.
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