{"id":1971,"date":"2005-02-19T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-19T15:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1971"},"modified":"2018-07-18T06:34:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T11:34:54","slug":"1971","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/19\/1971\/","title":{"rendered":"Ne’er The Twain Shall Meet"},"content":{"rendered":"

The St. Louis Post Dispatch<\/i> suffers from cognitive dissonance. Every once in a while, they post stories about companies leaving St. Louis, such as this analysis piece from February 5: Does loss of company HQs hurt St. Louis?<\/a>:<\/p>\n

St. Louis lost yet another homegrown corporate headquarters last week with the announced buyout of Pulitzer Inc.<\/p>\n

And if the swirling rumors about a buyout of May Department Stores Co. are to be believed, an even larger corporate base could quickly follow Pulitzer out the door.<\/p>\n

But while the region’s business leaders grit their teeth, they must ponder this question: Job loss aside, does it really matter if a corporation no longer calls your city home?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So they gnash their teeth for a bit, but then they jump on the bandwagon for the local labor whenever a local union strikes. Oddly enough, the Post-Dispatch<\/i> cheerleads local labor strife and at any given time, the Post-Dispatch<\/i> has at least one high profile dispute to rah-rah. Why, in 2004, we had:<\/p>\n

St. Louis Symphony Orchestra<\/a><\/p>\n

Auto dealer mechanics<\/a><\/p>\n

Newspaper Guild<\/a> (oddly enough, since that union struck against the Post-Dispatch<\/i>, the paper was less eager to stick it to The Man)<\/p>\n

Boeing Machinists<\/a><\/p>\n

SBC<\/a><\/p>\n

Grocery workers<\/a> (end of 2003, I know, but it doesn’t seem that long ago)<\/p>\n

So why would a corporation come to or stay in St. Louis, a labor-friendly town that supports entire workforces stopping work for days, weeks, or months on end? Perhaps the tax incentives<\/a> that the local and state governments favor and the Post-Dispatch<\/i> lauds.<\/p>\n

The climate for business, particularly the manufacturing and blue collar businesses whose employees the Post-Dispatch<\/i> champions, is difficult, murky, and prone to the whims of organized labor and government largesse. Why would a corporation base its business here?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The St. Louis Post Dispatch suffers from cognitive dissonance. Every once in a while, they post stories about companies leaving St. Louis, such as this analysis piece from February 5: Does loss of company HQs hurt St. Louis?: St. Louis lost yet another homegrown corporate headquarters last week with the announced buyout of Pulitzer Inc. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-st-louis-post-dispatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20554,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions\/20554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}