The AFL-CIO has the financial resources to fund the labor equivalent of such newspapers. However, such a commitment would require the nation's conservative unions to become the movement for social change they used to be. Unfortunately, this is a commitment organized labor is unwilling to make. It was made abundantly clear by the lack of support from the AFL-CIO's leadership for the civil disobediance during the WTO demonstrations. Accredited journalism programs are not teaching students journalism at all.
Every journalism school offers students the option of the public relations concentration.
If J-schools were serious about teaching students journalism, then they would eliminate the PR concentration from their programs as this concentration belongs in, say, a school of business. There are far more working PR flacks than reporters these days. In fact, many in the ranks of the PR profession used to be reporters who have since taken up employment in the more financially lucrative PR field. This is the function a J-school should be performing in our society given the distribution of wealth and resources. As a reporter in an underfunded newsroom, you are going to rely on official sources and PR flacks to write your stories.