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LABOR HISTORY TODAY February 14, 1996

Lawrence Smoot | Published on 2/14/2025




Striking workers at Detroit’s newspapers, out since the previous July, offer to return to work. The offer is accepted five days later but the newspapers vow to retain some 1,200 scabs. A court ruling the following year ordered as many as 1,100 former strikers reinstated.