AP: Arbitrator says Tribune sale of Advocate violated union contract

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070410/BUSINESS01/704100324/1066/BUSINESS01

Arbitrator says Tribune sale of Advocate violated union contract
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

(Original publication: April 10, 2007)

STAMFORD, Conn. - An arbitrator has ruled that Tribune Co.'s sale of The Advocate of Stamford to Gannett Co. violated a union contract by failing to require Gannett to honor newsroom employees' collective bargaining agreement, according to court papers filed yesterday by the union.

Local 2110 of the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America promptly filed a request to extend an injunction that a federal judge issued last month temporarily blocking the sale.

The union has said that Gannett doesn't plan to honor the contract between Tribune and the union's 36 reporters and photographers.

"We're still in the process of understanding the arbitrator's decision," said Tribune spokesman Gary Weitman. A Gannett spokeswoman declined to comment.

FULL story at link.

[Gman]

1. Gannet is USA Today and the Detroit Free Press

at which I had a helluva good time at a rally where we stormed the lobby when they were on strike.

Very good news here.