Chicago Tribune Sends Workers to Help S.F. Chronicle During Strike
The Chicago Tribune has sent a handful of reporters and production workers to the strikebound San Francisco Chronicle, a Tribune spokeswoman confirmed Friday.
Other newspapers have also been asked to help the Chronicle since 2,600 reporters, salespeople, printers and delivery drivers went on strike against the paper, as well as the San Francisco Examiner, on Nov. 1, Tribune spokeswoman Faith Brown said.
She said the Tribune, which did the same thing during a 1990 strike at the New York Daily News, asked for volunteers and that a handful accepted.
Members of eight unions walked out in San Francisco after negotiators failed to reach an agreement on the future of about 150 delivery drivers’ jobs, a raise and other issues. They had worked for a year without a contract.
Chronicle columnist Herb Caen led about 150 strikers at a rally Friday in Union Square. Union members handed out copies of the latest issue of their paper.
The machinists union, the one group of strikers not represented by the Conference of Newspaper Unions, reached a tentative settlement late Thursday. It still must be ratified by the union membership.
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