AFL Web Closes New Jersey Facility

Last week, the Bergen Record reported that the company was laying off 63 people, including 49 in Voorhees. The paper quoted Patrick LoPresti—president of the Local 1-L of the Amalgamated Lithographers of America—as saying the layoffs were prompted at least in part by the loss of a contract to print the Metro, a free newspaper for commuters in Philadelphia and New York.