Vol.61/No.30 September 8, 1997
Detroit 'News' Workers Protest Court Ruling Preventing Rehiring Of Strikers
About 250 people, many former employees of Detroit News
and Free Press who have been on strike since 1995, rallied
in front of the company's headquarters in downtown Detroit,
August 21. They were protesting an August 14 ruling by U.S.
District judge John Corbett O'Meara, who refused to
implement an order by the National Labor Relations Board
that the companies reinstate the strikers. The demonstration
was part of actions in 11 U.S. cities in solidarity with the
Detroit News strikers. The rallies extended support to
workers at the Monterey County Herald, which was recently
acquired by Knight-Ridder, the parent company of the Detroit
papers. Nearly 400 people rallied at Monterey Bay in
California, August 21, in one of these actions. The Miami-
based Knight-Ridder had announced it would fire all 190
workers at the Herald when it takes over operations
September 4. The three newspaper unions in Monterey voted
August 8 to authorize a strike. No strike date has been set
yet. Since then, Knight-Ridder said it would rehire 109 of
the Herald's 153 members of the Newspaper Guild.
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