It Must Be Contract Season

Today we report two items from this universe.

The National Labor Relations Board has ruled in a dispute between the Hawaii Tribune-Herald and the Hawaii Newspaper Guild that the paper had tried to suppress union activity during eight years of negotiations for a new contract.

During these eight years, the company fired three employees and issued a written warning to a fourth, “discriminatorily prohibited employees from wearing buttons and armbands in support of discharged or suspended employees,” and “refused to provide in a timely manner to the Union information necessary and relevant to its duties as a collective bargaining representative of employees.”

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