An estimated 40 workers — unionized and management — will receive pink slips today from GFR Media Inc., parent company of newspapers El Nuevo Día, Primera Hora and Índice, this media outlet learned.
The Independent Telephone Workers Union, a 2,000 employee bargaining unit employed by Claro Puerto Rico known as the UIET, has voted to affiliate itself with the Office and Professional Employees International Union. The new group will be known as OPEIU Local Union 1971.