Gannett employees in York, England, pose in Edwardian costume to call attention to a five-day walkout workers began there today. The National Union of Journalists has accused U.K. subsidiary Newsquest of too-low wage offers during contract talks."We are particularly keen to honour those heroes who took part in the NUJ's first ever strike -- at the York Herald in 1911 -- over Dickensian conditions that saw them working 16 hours a day, seven days a week,'' staffers say today on their lively and entertaining strike blog. They've also published video of editor Richard Foster, performing a folk song to mark the strike by NUJ journalists at The Press and the Gazette & Herald:
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