Union leaders will meet with New York...

Union leaders will meet with New York Post management today to review a $24-million concessions package that executives say they need to sell the ailing newspaper. The meeting with representatives of Publisher Rupert Murdoch was requested by George McDonald, head of the Allied Print Trades Council, according to union adviser Theodore Kheel. Kheel said the meeting was aimed at working out agreements on the number of layoffs and the size of pay cuts needed to meet the $24-million target. “It is an essential preliminary to negotiations,” he said. Murdoch has said he will close the paper Feb. 19 at 2 p.m. unless the unions accept the concessions, which Murdoch said developer Peter S. Kalikow requires to buy the paper for $37 million.