News bits roundup

1. AFL-CIO is helping us keep track of the bad guys. Their Job Tracker database tells you which companies in your area are exporting jobs, endangering workers' health or involved in cases of violations of workers' rights under the National Labor Relations Act. Check it out here.
2. The newspaper industry lost more than 1,900 jobs last year. That's just at major and mid-sized papers. Well, what's left of them, anyway. Check out the story here.
3. Do the publishers need to trim those jobs? Well, no, actually they don't, says the AP.
4. In more pleasant news, engineers at Boeing just got a great contract, including average 17 percent raises. See that story here.
5. Slate magazine writer Jack Shafer and his readers speculate on the takeover of the media by post-Boomers, and the headlines we'll write.