Locked-out Montreal newspaper workers to publish online paper

A friend notes that the workers locked out by Quebecor at Le Journal de Montreal will, like their formerly locked-out counterparts at Le Journal de Quebec, start an online newspaper next week. In Quebec, they published on paper. "It's funny that people that work for a newspaper are going to do an online version of it -- doing that they are almost saying the same thing as their boss."

Although the crux of the labour-management dispute is working hours and pay, management at Quebecor says the union is also being intransigent about necessary changes to working conditions brought on by harder times and changing technology.