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Published on: 2/6/2009
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Joseph Zerbey, vice president and general manager of The Blade, says only 50 to 60 temporaries were needed to replace the locked-out employees that were barred from entry on Sunday.
Those included members of the Teamsters Local 20, Toledo Typographical Local 63, and Toledo Mailers Local 1135, according to the paper.
How in the world does a company survive replacing 200 full-time employees with one-quarter as many temps?
Because of the untenable work rules here, we don't need to replace everyone," Zerbey said.
"We brought in a lot fewer people than we locked out."
He declined to elaborate on the work rules, but said they require more people on certain jobs than he believes are necessary.
"There are rules in there that a normal general manager would never do," he said about the locked-out unions' contracts.