The company for which I was working by that time, Bloomberg News, didn't have a union. But it was happy to use my skills, and it's more focused on serving customers than the Free Press . I thought it had a bright future. It pays better. So I stayed.
Today there is no labor writer at either newspaper.
The beat died with the strike. So did something about the two newspapers. I never once considered scabbing. Eight months into the strike, I became chairman of the Free Press unit of The Newspaper Guild. At first, the strike seemed larger than life.