The Use of Information Technology in a Strike

On November 8, 1999, 107 Calgary Herald newsroom employees went on strike. It was the first time since the daily newspaper’s founding in 1883 that editorial workers had struck. In fact, the newsroom employees’ decision to join a union 13 months earlier was itself an unprecedented development. Over several decades, while employees in newsrooms at most other urban Canadian dailies were organized, their counterparts in the fervently free-enterprise province of Alberta consistently declined to sign union cards.