HALIFAX — A lockout or strike appears inevitable at Canada's largest independent daily newspaper.
The union for editorial staff at the Halifax Chronicle Herald says 61 newsroom employees will be in a legal strike or lockout position just after midnight.
The Halifax Typographical Union says it believes the primary goal of management in the contract dispute is union busting.
The union says it would remain a union "in name only" if proposals that make more than 1,232 changes to the existing contract were accepted.
The union says it learned late Thursday that the newspaper had arranged a news-sharing agreement with Irving-owned Brunswick News.
The company has said it wants to reduce wages, lengthen working hours, alter future pension benefits and lay off up to 18 workers to cope with economic challenges that have beset North America's newspaper industry.
