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The Death of a Union
January 4, 1993 issue

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On September 10, 1992 the newsroom employees at the Santa Barbara News-Press, fellow workers, voted 31 to 23 to disband union. It was twenty-seven years of unionism down the drain — years that, by 1990, had made one of the highest paid newsrooms in the country for small newspapers. The nonunion departments were given a pension with company contributions, a company-matched savings plan and disability benefits to which one had no access. The newsroom union, an unaffiliated association of about forty-five reporters, copy editors and photographers, decided to stick together.

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NEWS-Press (Newspaper); LABOR unions; VOTING; EMPLOYEES; LABOR policy; INDUSTRIAL relations
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