Reader comments: News sells property to finance severance

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Brother Chuck Schroeder | 7:22 a.m. June 7, 2008
I can't believe the Deseret News sold downtown property to a real estate arm of The LDS church, earning money that will be used for severances of 35 newspaper employees, using a good deal of the proceeds to help your employee severance package ?. News Board of Directors are adding a cheery to the top of the cake here it looks like. The employees who volunteer to leave or who are laid off will get three weeks of salary plus 1 1/2 weeks of salary for each year of service, and any remaining vacation time they have accrued. Your acting like you are a local Utah Union, chapter LDS Church here, and all have pain in union dues and have a union card. That's not wat a Republican does, and they are against a Union. I feel it's in excess if you ask me.
David | 7:31 a.m. June 7, 2008
Joe Cannon really can't run a business can he? First Geneva Steel now Deseret News.
Better.... | 5:13 p.m. June 7, 2008
have all of this money go straight to help the employees who are going to be laid off. There better not be a catch somewhere about the Top Management Team, needing a raise....LOL!!
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Sam | 2:29 p.m. June 8, 2008
Since the LDS Church owns the Deseret News doesn't the church already own those properties?

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