N.Y. Daily News Sues 11 Over Strike Violence
The Daily News has taken a new tack in the nearly monthlong strike against the tabloid by suing 11 people for allegedly burning a delivery truck, stealing bundled papers or attacking replacement drivers.
Evidence in two of the three lawsuits filed in state court Tuesday includes videotapes made by management, newspaper spokesman John T. Sloan said.
Each lawsuit, claiming the defendants hurt the paper’s ability to do business, seeks $100,000 in punitive damages and unspecified compensatory damages.
One lawsuit claims that a member of the drivers’ union set fire to a truck outside the paper’s Brooklyn printing plant on Oct. 25, the night the strike began.
Another claims that two Wall Street Journal drivers stole bundles of the News that had been left at a drop-off point by non-union drivers on Oct. 30.
The third lawsuit accuses eight people of attacking non-union drivers and independent distributors on Oct. 31 at a paper drop-off point.
Nine unions representing more than 2,000 employees at the nation’s third-largest newspaper went on strike over what they called unfair labor practices.
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