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While our fine city’s largest newspaper union is having its own problems with a contract, it’s not the only place in the state where a newspaper is having work problems.
Approximately 4500 miles — or that’s what it feels like — west of Philadelphia, writers at the York Daily Record have been working without a contract for over a year. It’s a complicated issue in York, which somehow is a two paper town and had a weird ownership-swapping deal of the Daily Record and the other paper, the Dispatch, a few years back.
Reporters can’t agree on a contract with MediaNews, which you may remember as one of the companies that was looking to buy the Inquirer and Daily News. The back-and-forth has been intense, as the reporters had a byline strike, and once it was over, management refused to put the bylines back. Workers were also forbidden from wearing clothing with the union logo on it, etc.
Anyway, the union shot back on a few days before Halloween, filming this video:
Seriously, this is a way to get the public in your side. Scooby freakin’ Doo! Only if they killed off Scrappy could this be a better propaganda video.
Guild’s Scooby Doo Protest Debuts on YouTube [E&P]
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