Unionized workers in the Chicago Sun-Times' newsroom have rejected demands for three-year, 15% pay cuts and elimination of seniority rules. The move puts at risk a planned sale of the
struggling newspaper to an investment group.
Chicago banker Jim Tyree says that without concessions from the paper's 18 unions, he will not bid for the paper in a bankruptcy
auction. The paper's owner Sun-Times Media Group has told employees that nonunion workers will take a steep pay cut and that union members should agree to similar cuts. Sun-Times Media Chairman
Jeremy Halbreich has told union workers that a union rejection will mean the end of the company.
But the Chicago unions are not alone. On Monday, workers at the company's
Post-Tribune of Northwest Indiana rejected the concessions proposal 17-1. Union members at the company's Lake County News-Sun in Waukegan, Ill., voted 12-4 Wednesday to also reject the package.
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