Montana papers refuse to run union ad

Five Lee papers in Montana refused to run an ad from the United Food and Commercial Workers. Ten other Montana papers ran the ad, which asked readers to call for insurance information. UFCW doesn't sell insurance; it does offer coverage to union members. (Lee has made its anti-union stance pretty well known. Last year it launched Lee Union Free.)

Billings Blog has more on the article that the Butte Weekly (which does not have a website) wrote about the incident, including a very short interview with the publisher of the Helena Independent-Record and Montana Standard.

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Pantagraph cited in union debate

Enough employees at the Pantagraph in Bloomington, Ill., signed cards last year to support forming a union that it was voted on. Lee responded with an anti-union campaign. Pantagraph employees voted in December that they would not unionize. Two employees, both union supporters, said they were fired soon after.



The Huffington Post has a story on the Employee Free Choice Act, citing the Pantagraph as an example.

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