Vol.63/No.11 March 22, 1999
Newspaper workers, others rally in Detroit to win more jobs back
Blowing whistles to celebrate a judge's ruling that picket
line noise does not violate city ordinances, 200 locked-out
and returned Detroit newspaper workers along with supporters
protested outside the Detroit News building March 2, demanding
more workers be reinstated. On March 5 the unionists won a
small victory when the National Labor Relations Board refused
to reconsider two earlier rulings that ordered the newspapers
to return 1,000 workers to their jobs. The NLRB can now go to
the U.S. Court of Appeals to enforce its order. Another
protest is called for March 12 at noon at the same location. A
group of newspaper workers joined a picket by Communications
Workers of America a few blocks away, who were protesting job
losses.
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