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Digital Extra: The Journal's 175th Anniversary |
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2006 EPpy Winner -- Best multimedia Providence, R.I., Overcast 33° |
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  07.21.2004 1973. Guild calls strike over retroactive pay Providence College dorm fire claims 10 lives Rolling Stones get no satisfaction in R.I. Watkins’ watch: Circulation, computers ’73 strike called over retroactive pay Blizzard of ’78 shuts down state, not Journal presses Nixon to Journal:‘I’m not a crook’ Journal first to report Nixon’s resignation A sure bet: Journal antes up for Pete Rose On Sept. 13, 1973, unionized workers at The Providence Journal voted to go on strike, after approving the provisions of a new contract, but failing to reach agreement with the company on how far back retroactive raises would reach. The Providence Newspaper Guild had represented reporters and other news department employees since June 1959, when a May 27, 1959, vote to unionize was certified. The vote had followed an unsuccessful organizing campaign in 1954. In 1967, advertising workers joined the Guild, followed a year later by the porters who cleaned the building. The 1973 strike ended Sept. 25, when union members voted to return to work after a state Superior Court judge sided with the company regarding limits on pickets. The Journal continued to publish a reduced-sized newspaper every day of the strike. The strike gave birth to the Guild Follies, an annual musical variety show -- always held at the Venus de Milo Restaurant in Swansea, Mass. -- in which Guild members and friends lampoon Rhode Island newsmakers from the previous year. |
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