European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes saturday september 28, 1985 forgotten strike in Chicago by Carroll Thomas associated press d despite a strike by 1,042production workers the chicag Tribune has printed a Lull edition every morning for the last two months. A Boycott by the unions has Cut Dally sales by Only 2.000 papers. Advertisers Haven t abandoned the paper. And the three striking unions have hired a Public relations firm to carry their Case to a seemingly indifferent Community. It s almost a forgotten situation said William Boarman. A vice president for the International typographers Union whose 240 Tribune members went on strike july 18. Joining the Itu members were 546 Pressman and plate makers and 256 Union mailers the men and women who stiff inserts and get the papers on the delivery trucks. Tha strike Lura pitted one of the nation s biggest Media companies against printing Craft unions thai have been losing Battles with technology for nearly 20 years. Tribune co. Owner of newspapers major Market television stations and the Chicago cubs earned a record $51.1 million in the first half of 1985. In contrast membership in the Itu. The most vocal of the striking unions has declined steadily to 70.000, most of them retirees from a 1968 Peak of 120,000. The unions say the company is trying to end their traditional practices and their clout. Days after the walkout began the Tribune sent strikers letters warning they would be replaced. The Tribune Hus been unbending in Noigot Latsons the unions add. They Point to its retention of the Nashville term., Law firm of Ken Ballow & Little which has a reputation Lor playing hardball in newspaper strikes As evidence of bad Faith. It s the worst Case of Union busting i be Ever seen said Boarman who fears a Tribune Triumph could encourage other publishers to take on the unions. The company insists that the strike centers on management prerogatives and was inspired in part by internal Itu politics. Tribune officiate believe the strike was designed to inspire anti teamsters sentiment since the newspaper s teamster delivery Drivers contract prohibits sympathy strikes and the Drivers would not Honor picket lines before a vote on a proposed merger of the Itu and the teamsters Union. Some Itu leaders opposed the merger which its membership ultimately rejected. This is a political said editor James Squires. Tribune editorial employees Are non Union while reporters Ard editors at the rival Chicago Sun times Are represented by the newspaper Guild. By and Large the nation s seventh largest daily circulation 775,000 has followed the Credo of the late col. Robert r. Mccormick who personally handed out Christmas bonuses and believed management kept labor peace by treating employees Well. The last strike at the Tribune a 22-month walkout occurred in 1947. Ruths Hlyn Roguski a Tribune spokeswoman said the 1947 strike affected All the Chicago papers which continued to publish throughout the strike. But Mccormick also believed get every possible engineering advantage Over your and in the 1970s, the Tribune guaranteed lifetime jobs to its printers whose functions were being taken Over by machines to maintain its Edge. Today most newspapers including the Tribune set Type by computer usually at the command of an editor. Printers trim computer generated copy and paste it on boards which Are photographed to make plates for the presses. But even that task is being computerized. The Tribune Wanti to reassign unneeded Itu members whose average age is 52. To the More physically demanding duties of the ballroom where there has been less automation. At the same time it wants to wrest control of hiring and training from the mailers and Pressman whose Union Halls traditionally have determined who works at the Tribune and competing Sun times. We need Well trained practice Crews said Squires. It s been kind of a problem for us in terms of producing the kind of Quality the Tribune s modern Freedom Center production facility is designed to produce this strike said Squires is Over whether a Job guarantee meant the preservation of an obsolete Way of doing at the forefront of the dispute Are the printers who object they would be required to give up seniority and Union rights in the Mai room. They fear getting the toughest schedules and hardest jobs. They want an older person to Transfer to a Job where he would be doing heavy lifting and either quit or be fired said Boarman. 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