Manuscripts

Departments - Employee Relations - Suggestion Program

Description: Approx. 12 items. Materials include: booklet, ca. 1985, "Los Angeles Times Suggestion System"; booklet (blue), "Getting ahead with ideas," (ca. 1965); in 1957 employee Maxine Caywood wrote a letter suggesting a bridge column be added to LAT. The suggestion was rejected, and Caywood was informed in a letter form Spence Price of the Suggestion Committee; memo on cost containment, 1988, and a flyer for the "Pull Together Sweepstakes (related to cost containment); an example of the "What is your suggestion?" form (in triplicate); other memos and material on the suggestion system.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1957 - 1984
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Subjects - Employee Relations - New Programs

Manuscripts

Approx. 30 items: collection of memos, letters, charts and reports on a number of company issues including cost containment, annual budgets, ride sharing, LAT medical department, automation of records, (college) tuition reimbursement, etc.

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Departments - Employee Relations - Educational Programs

Manuscripts

9 items: 3 booklets (Winter, Spring and Summer, 1984) describing LAT Educational Programs; a booklet (Fall 1991) for LAT Professional Development Programs; booklet, LAT Training & Development 1993 Spring Catalog; booklet, LAT Educ. Programs, Fall 1986; booklet, "Personal Enrichment Classes - Spring '88; booklet, "Management Skills for Supervisors & Managers," Spring 1988."

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Departments - Employee Relations - Articles

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items. Material includes: copies of Among Ourselves clippings from late 1920s onward; LAT clips on subject of unions, LAT employee "census" counts; 1987 memo to LAT employees on availability of radon testing kits; booklet, "A report to the employees of the Times-Mirror Company" (1957); 6-pp. report, "Times Mirror / LAT info for Employees, ca. 1964"; memos and other info., 1988, on Temporary Help Agencies; 2/1/1989 clip from LAT, "20 at Times Costa Mesa plant charged with drug sales"; LAT Performance Appraisal Form, 1/1985; 14-pp. LAT "Employee Handbook, 1990"; etc.

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Departments - Employee Relations - Orientations

Manuscripts

3 items: Management Bulletin, 2/24/1989, subject is "a major change in the Times employee orientation program"; booklet, ca. 1989, The Times Orientation"; double-sided sheet headed "Welcome to The Times - Supervisor's Orientation Checklist."

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Departments - Employee Relations - Voluntary Separation Program

Manuscripts

2 items: "Special Voluntary Separation Program," in plain white folder (nothing printed on outside), 11/9/1992, including a 29-pp. information booklet and related materials; one copy, "Separation Program Bulletin, 12/23/1992.

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Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1962

Manuscripts

Approx. 45 items. Materials include: memos, form letters and other LAT tactics to persuade pressmen to reject unionization in 1962. One item, a mock-up of a newspaper is labeled "Los Angeles Times PRESSMAN," 4/9/1962, with Pg.1 headline, "Union is seeking control of Times pressroom jobs." The election was held 4/13, and an LAT story for 4/15/1962 ran the headline "Pressmen vote for union in Times election." The National Labor Relations Board sponsored the election. The LAT pressmen had rejected the union's representation in 1944, 1957 and 1959.

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