Chicago Sun-Times violating union agreements

Ever since the Chicago Sun-Times started pillaging the regional community newspapers, it has been violating its claim to be a union newspaper. The majority of community newspapers it grabs are non-union. And the Chicago Sun-Times has been using that fact to save money, They have been gutting the community newspapers and fleecing them for their advertising revenues to support their own deteriorating business.

The Chicago Sun-Times takes articles from the non-union newspapers that are written by non-union employees and they publish them in the Chicago Sun-Times, filling valuable editorial content space which has become smaller and smaller in the paper. In other words, space is a premium for new copy and there isn't as much today as there was in the past.

But the worst thing is that the articles they take from non-union writers are replacing articles that could have been written by union writers at the Chicago Sun-Times.

So, by doing this, they have been able to shove union workers aside. And worse, they have used this system to support their policies of firing union writers who are paid at a higher rate than the non-union workers who writing they are exploiting.

You won't see this story in the Chicago Sun-Times because they do not write about or expose their own unethical misconduct and their hypocrisies and double standards. And since they have that big fat-cat contract to the Chicago Tribune to publish the Chicago Sun-Times, at the expense of 400 loyal union printers, the Chicago Tribune won't write about it either. The Tribune has been bought off.

Instead of writing about this, the Chicago Sun-Times has been publishing really stupid and pointless stories about other topics including: the PR for Bank of America. Instead of reporting and criticizing the bank for imposing outrageous ATM card fees, is getting Chicago Sun-Times PR support to boost their image. And there is the ongoing ridiculous charges against the Town of Cicero that, wow, politicians hire their relatives -- like not every municipality government leader is hiring their own relatives too? Amazing waste of news space.

Of course, when it comes to nepotism, the Chicago Sun-Times is right up there hiring their relatives and putting relatives of their business owners in key positions. Nepotism is only bad when someone else does it, not the Chicago Sun-Times.

BT