N.Y. Post Strikers Vote to End Walkout
Striking union workers at the New York Post voted Saturday to end their walkout, even though they will be forced to reapply for their old jobs and stand to lose pension benefits, seniority and severance pay.
Newspaper Guild members voted with a show of hands to disband their week-old picket line outside the embattled newspaper.
Barry Lipton, president of the Guild’s New York local, acknowledged after a meeting of the local that he had suffered a defeat at the hands of Rupert Murdoch, who completed his $27-million purchase of the bankrupt newspaper Friday.
“This battle is lost,” Lipton said.
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