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QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS ABOUT THE PROVIDENCE NEWSPAPER GUILD’S BOYCOTT
QUESTION:
When will the boycott begin?
ANSWER:
When the Guild believes that it has exhausted all attempts to get The
Providence Journal and its new Texas owners to bargain a fair contract.
Q: How will I
know the boycott has started?
A: The Guild will notify you personally, based on the information
on your pledge card, and we will tell your union as well.
Q: I don’t
get the paper at home. How can I participate in the boycott?
A: Pledge not to buy it at the store, supermarket, vending machine.
Q:
I depend on The Providence Journal for my news. Where am I going to get
information during the boycott?
A: We know that giving up the paper – for what we hope will only
be a short while – will be hard on readers, as it is on the men and
women who produce what we think is a great newspaper. For those of you
with home computers hooked up to the Internet, we refer you to two Web
sites:
www.riguild.org
This is the Guild’s own site, and we’ll make sure it’s
chock full of information. We will have links to some of the best local
and national news sources.
www.projo.com
We also recommend The Providence Journal’s Web site. It’s FREE,
and it has all the news of the day from the newspaper, and a whole lot
more. It is produced proudly by the men and women of the Providence Newspaper
Guild.
Other sources of news include Channels 6, 10 and 12, along with the major
radio stations and Rhode Island’s statewide weekly newspaper, The
Providence Phoenix. In addition, we recommend the state’s excellent
National Public Radio station: WNRI, with two AM dial positions: 1290
and 1230.
Q: What happens
after the boycott?
A: We want you to resume buying the newspaper. We will restart your
subscription and let you know that we’ve done so. We don’t want
you to abandon the paper. We just need your help in getting your fellow
union members a good contract and fighting the attempt to break us.
Q: What if The
Journal keeps delivering the newspaper after the boycott begins?
A: You don’t have to pay for papers you have asked not to receive.
Q: How else can
I help?
A: You can write to Howard G. Sutton, publisher, Providence Journal,
75 Fountain St., Providence, RI 02902; or call him, (401) 277-7521. Ask
him to stop mistreating his workers and attacking their union.
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