NY Daily News Owner To Drivers’ Union: Ratify Contract Or We’ll Go All Digital
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New York Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman says he’ll scrap the printed edition of his newspaper if his drivers don’t agree to a contract extension.
The 96-year-old paper has seen circulation declines hit about 30 percent and is losing nearly $30 million a year.
The threatened move to a digital-only format — outlined in Daily News Chief Executive William Holiber’s letter (a copy of which was obtained by The Post) to the drivers’ union — would be aimed at saving Zuckerman millions of dollars in costs.
But the move to all-digital could also mean all of the paper’s 220 drivers would lose their jobs.
The proposed extension, from March 30, 2017, through Jan. 1, 2021, comes with annual wage increases of 2, 1 and 1 percent, sources said.
The extension would also give the News the right to reduce the paper’s 106 routes by more than half, sources said.
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