Detroit newspaper strike of 1995–1997

The Detroit Newspaper Strike was a major labor dispute which began in Detroit, Michigan on July 13, 1995, and involved several actions including a local boycott, corporate campaign, and legal charges of unfair labor practices.

Chris Rhomberg, a sociology professor at Fordham University, concludes in his book, The Broken Table, that management provoked the strike and had been preparing for several years.

[2] Revolutionary Worker claimed that the owners had been planning as early as 1989 to significantly change the existing labor agreements with the unions.

[4] On July 13, 1995, about 2,500 members of six different unions went on strike[1][3] after management indicated it would not discuss recent labor practice changes by Detroit News publisher, Robert Giles.

[2] Striking workers traveled the United States to draw attention to the conflict and pressure corporate boards of directors of advertisers in the two newspapers.

[2][4][5] In Winter 1996, twenty-seven strikers were arrested for blocking Gannett Company's Port Huron, Michigan, printing facility for the USA Today regional edition.