Tribune to Print Sun-Times

The Tribune and Sun-Times have reached an agreement in which the Trib will begin printing the Sun-Times and seven sister publications in September.

Sun-Times Media LLC Chairman Jeremy Halbreich said the agreement will allow his company to invest more money into editorial and advertising. But it's going to cost 400 workers at the Sun-Times production plant at 2800 S. Ashland their jobs, most of them union workers. the Tribune will add about 100 hires to accommodate the added production at their Freedom Center at 777 W. Chicago and could select some of the Sun-times workers.

The Tribune's Freedom Center plant already prints the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Investor's Business Daily locally. The addition of the Sun-Times, SouthtownStar, Naperville Sun, Aurora Beacon-News, Elgin Courier-News, Lake County News-Sun, Merrilville Post-Tribune, Joliet Herald-News will being the total number of newspapers printed there to 15. The Tribune has been distributing the Sun-Times since 2007, and expanded its distribution of the paper last year.

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By Chuck Sudo in News on July 19, 2011 4:30 PM

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old mech

well the real story is they had people in charge at the suntines that came from the trib and totally ran it in the ground and busting up the unions at the same time all the unions took a 15 percent pay cut and know the tribune well hire you 10 dollars a hour i don't think so ..in this day and age can you support your family on it this is about greedy company decession ,there not going out of bussness there still going to print it ,for cheap labor ,Halbreich you made up this deal to save the suntimes and then became the ceo ,a little confict of intrest dont you think ?You should be in jail also like mr black for busting the union ,but you dont care you got your millon dollar payday ...so some day you will pay for what you did ....