The Globe and Mail, a Canadian newspaper, missed its delivery this morning due to a strike. The paper retaliated by publishing today's edition online. Chris sez, "Think about that – web access to newspapers is sufficiently common that a paper can expect that its online version is a reasonable substitute for the paper version – and that its customers will find this out without having to read it in the paper."
That's interesting, but what's more interesting to me is that the Internet is being used to break a strike.
The Globe and Mail is advising customers in
Toronto and parts of Ontario that some morning deliveries of the newspaper will be delayed or prevented due to a labour protest which has occurred overnight at the Transcontinental printing plant in Mississauga where the newspaper is printed…The entire contents of Thursday's Globe are freely available on-line including columnists and other content normally available only to on-line subscribers.
(Thanks, Chris!)
Update: Jim sez, "This happened in San Francisco in 1994! Management published an electronic edition, and striking reporters countered with one of their own."
Update 2: Dylan sez, "During their strike against the Seattle Times and P-I in 2000-01, the newspaper union published their own paper, the Seattle Union Record. While they had trouble distributing print copies in the city, the website was more successful and garnered a lot of international attention."
