Six-Member Union Stalls Deal For Sun-Times Media Group
When a bankruptcy judge in Delaware approved Chicago financier Jim Tyree's $26.5 million bid to save Sun-Times Media Group Inc. from extinction last week, Steve Berman and the six members of the Chicago Typographical Union No. 16 heard about it from the media like everybody else.The stories said the company's largest union, the Chicago Newspaper Guild, had finally agreed to Tyree's terms. And Sun-Times management casually predicted that agreements with two holdout bargaining units would be "reached in the coming days."
What the stories didn't say was that the company's smallest union, Berman's CTU, hadn't even scheduled a vote and had no intention of doing so until it saw a little more flexibility from management. Download entire story in PDF format.
