Manuscripts

Subjects - Budget Reports

Description: Approx. 8 items: multiple-page printout related to 1989 LAT budget ; interoffice letters from Boswell to Tom Johnson and Dick Schlosberg related to various aspects of Security Services.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1988 - 1989
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Subjects - Budget Cuts

Manuscripts

2 items: memo, 11/30/1988, from Boswell to Linda Lloyd Da Silva on Dick Schlosberg asking staffers to "take another look at (the) 1989 budget to see if further reduction could be made" ; memo, 12/16/1988, on "further budget reductions."

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Policy - Cost Containment Strategies

Manuscripts

Approx. 10 items. Material includes: 2 small cardboard flyers with information on LAT "Pull Together Sweepstakes Prizes"; 7/18/1988 Tom Johnson memo on "a series of steps designed to reduce expenses"; 8/11/1988 follow-up memo to previous Johnson memo by Tom Boswell announcing "Pull Together Sweepstakes" to generate cost-cutting suggestions from all LAT employees; related cost-containment memos; memo (7/18/1988) on Expense Reduction Videotape to be viewed by LAT employees; 9/19/1988 memo on "organizational changes" from Dick Schlosberg.

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Departments - Circulation - Personnel

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items: approx. 20 "Management Bulletin(s)," 1983-1989, over the signatures of Don Wright, Tom Johnson, Jim Boswell and Dick Schlosberg, the bulletins deal with promotions, transfers and organizational changes within Circulation Department, usually including some professional information on the individuals involved; 3 memos from Bert Tiffany to Circulation Account Clerks (1978-1979) on jobs being phased out by a computerized system, explaining that LAT would try to relocate personnel and/or offer a bonus to stay until the changeover.

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Los Angeles Times Orange County Edition

Manuscripts

Approx. 30 items - memos, clippings, prints from a slide program, agendas, and reports related to LAT operation of Orange County Edition. Notable names and items include: Vance Stickell, Tom Johnson, David Laventhol, Don Clark, Dick Schlosberg.

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Subjects - Budget-fest II

Manuscripts

Approx. 18 items: memos, reports, lists and charts related to LAT salary expenses, security services expense. various cost containment plans, etc.

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Subjects - Labor unions

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: memos, reports, lists and other materials related to union organizing attempts at LAT - 3-pp. "Company statement of position, Dick Schlosberg - Video" ; 5-pp. "Progress report - 6/21/1989, Pressrooms Project" ; 4-pp. "Program to 'Deunionize' the culture" ; 4-pp. "Outline of CRI Issues.". Some material deals with LAT salaries comparative to union scale.

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Subjects - Budget Reports

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