Opinion: News-Press Mess — Finally, a Measure of Justice
Wendy McCaw May Owe Cash for Mistreating Her Newsroom
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Melinda Burns and Dawn Hobbs Tue Mar 07, 2017 | 02:55pm
Rallying for the right to organize the <em>Santa Barbara News-Press</em> newsroom: Tom Schultz, Dawn Hobbs, Teamsters organizer George Perez, Barney McManigal, Rob Kuznia, Anna Davison, Melinda Burns, John Zant, and Melissa Evans.
It’s been a long time coming. For the first time, a federal appellate court has confirmed that Wendy McCaw, the multimillionaire owner of the Santa Barbara News-Press, is a lawbreaker.
On March 3, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., unanimously upheld the National Labor Relations Board’s findings that McCaw repeatedly broke federal labor law after the News-Press newsroom joined the Teamsters in the fall of 2006.
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