AP's Expired Contract May Explain Much of Its Union-Sympathetic Wiscon

March 21st, 2011 8:52 PM
While looking into the News Media Guild's positions in the current standoff between it and the Associated Press, I came across the most recent contract (large PDF file) between the two. It expired this past November; unionized AP employees are continuing to work under the old contract's provisions. Many people don't know that the AP is a "not-for-profit news cooperative" which is "owned by…