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SF Chronicle Outsources Printing - to Non-union plant

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The San Francisco Chronicle announced that they would stop publishing their newspaper at their aging, unionized printing plant and instead outsource the printing to a Canadian owned, non-union company.

hEh.

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Several Chronicle pressmen said they are upset that neither they nor their colleagues had been hired there. Union members of the Teamsters Local 853, which represents Chronicle delivery drivers and pressroom insert staff, want the plant unionized. They had been picketing it for alleged workplace violations until last week, when the protest was suspended temporarily so that union drivers could be trained on the pickup procedures at the new plant, said Rome Aloise, principal officer for Local 853.

Hmm, maybe because they can't afford unions anymore and turn a profit.

In particular, Murray was reacting to a June 24 letter that Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, D-San Francisco, and 14 of her Bay Area legislative colleagues sent to BART General Manager Dorothy Dugger. In their letter, the lawmakers raised concerns about BART's tough bargaining stance with the unions. Murray, however, recalled that it was local and state pols who stepped into the middle of BART's negotiations eight years ago to force a deal that gave the unions a 24 percent boost in salaries and benefits over four years.

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