Opening statements were heard Tuesday in a hearing to determine if 8 employees of the Santa Barbara News-Press were fired improperly. The NLRB is charging that the employees were fired for their union-organizing efforts and is demanding they be hired back by the newspaper with back pay. Lawyers for the News-Press countered that the suit was in reality an effort by employees to wrestle control of the paper from its publisher. The hearing is expected to last until September 14.
See "Hearing Set in Bitter Newspaper Fight", Gary Gentile, Forbes.com, August 14, 2007