With their contract expiring at midnight Thursday, editorial employees of Philadelphia's two largest newspapers braced for a possible strike that analysts said both management and the unions would do well to avoid. If workers walk off the job at The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News, it would be their first strike since a 46-day walkout in 1985. Leaders of the largest union, the Newspaper Guild of Greater Philadelphia, said they are most upset about company proposals to freeze and take over the pension plan, disregard seniority when it comes to layoffs and cut sick pay.
See "Contract deadline nears at Philadelphia papers, strike threatened", Deborah Yao, Chicago Tribune, November 29, 2006