Homemade Bomb Found at Detroit Newspaper Center
A homemade bomb was dismantled Sunday outside a Detroit Newspapers distribution center, and management said 1 million papers were transported past striking union workers.
A bomb squad went to the Detroit center after police received a threat Sunday morning, Police Officer Fatima Cotton said. There were no injuries and no suspects.
The bomb was “sort of a car battery with a fuse and some nails taped or glued to it,” said Benny Napoleon, executive deputy police chief.
Union officials condemned the action.
Six unions representing 2,500 employees struck Detroit Newspapers, which runs the business and production operations of the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News, on July 13. Management has refused to extend contracts that expired on April 30, and key issues are wages and work rules.
The newspapers are publishing with the help of managers, replacement workers and employees who have crossed picket lines.
Pickets briefly blocked delivery trucks Sunday. Five people were arrested, Cotton said.
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