Washington Post journalists announce 24-hour strike against staff cuts

Planned walkout, which is also in response to management’s alleged failure to bargain in good faith, would be first since 1975-76

Journalists at the Washington Post said they would stage a 24-hour strike on Thursday to protest against staff cuts and what they call management’s failure to bargain in good faith in contract talks that have stretched on for 18 months.

The planned one-day walkout would mark the first general work stoppage at the Post since the bitter, 20-week pressmen’s strike of 1975-76, when Katharine Graham was publisher, according to union officials.