NPR: In Historic Move At Labor-Skeptic ‘Chicago Tribune’, Newsroom Pushes To Form Union

by David Folkenflik

One of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious regional newspapers, The Chicago Tribune , could soon have a unionized staff. On Wednesday morning, journalists from its newsroom informed management that they are preparing to organize and that they have collected signatures from dozens of colleagues.

This is a historic move at a paper that, for decades, had taken a hard-line stance against unions.