LinkLinksOpinion Columbia Journalism Review: Lessons from a Washington Post labor dispute By Editor On Mar 11, 2019 Last updated Mar 11, 2019 25 Share ON THE MORNING OF OCTOBER 1, 1975, I was taking my turn at the cooperative nursery school my son attended when the pressmen—the workers who ran the physical presses—struck at The Washington Post. They did not go peacefully. Infamously, and painfully, they set presses on fire in the basement of the Post building and beat up a foreman. The Post would make the most of this, and it would divide and almost destroy the union to which I belonged, the Newspaper Guild. MediaThe Washington PostUnions 25 Share FacebookTwitterReddItWhatsAppEmailPrint
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