http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-21-2005/0003236537&EDATE=NEW YORK, March 21 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. journalists of Reuters Group Plc (LSE: RTR; Nasdaq: RTRSY) launched a four-day byline strike on Monday, and all employees are "working to rule," to protest demands for economic concessions and the offshoring of jobs by executives who enriched themselves at workers' expense, the Newspaper Guild of New York announced.
The job actions by Guild members at the London-based news and information company's Reuters America LLC subsidiary -- withholding bylines and credits from their work and giving no more to their jobs than what is required -- follows the recent disclosure of a bonus bonanza for Reuters top executives as company revenues fell.
"Our members are asking why they should give Reuters one iota of their talent and effort more than required when they're being asked to accept less and their bosses are cleaning up," said New York Guild President Barry Lipton.
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