The State - News from June 29, 1987

Newspaper Guild members and union supporters marched in front of the Fresno Bee and Bakersfield Californian over the weekend to protest stalled negotiations. They were opposing management demands that all raises be granted according to merit. The unions claim that could result in favoritism and want to maintain traditional across-the-board pay increases. “The wage scale is the bedrock of trade-unionism,” United Farm Workers President Cesar Chavez said at a rally in front of the Bee. Bee business manager Ray Steele said management’s only concern is to “improve the quality of our product and provide our employees the best working conditions.”