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Published on: 11/27/1999
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Most pleasing in all of this, perhaps, were San Jose's results - advertising revenue up 6.3 percent for the year, up 7.0 percent for the third quarter and 16 percent in the fourth quarter, KR chief financial officer Ross Jones said.
KR also reported that its 1999 newsprint costs dropped 12.3 percent.
These results are in line with the 1999 Conference of Newspaper Unions/South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council/Guild-CWA economic analysis of Mercury News negotiations.The study - Why We Deserve A Fair Share of the Pie - showed that Mercury News advertising revenues were up, newsprint costs were down and our housing costs were skyrocketing.
Meanwhile, Guild negotiators return to the bargaining table on February 3 and 4 to address non-economic issues such as pay classification upgrades and the company's desires to increase the number of excluded managers and fix its ailing commission sales program.