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On July 13, 1995, "Newspaper Guild"-represented employees of the Detroit Free Press and News and the pressmen, printers and Teamsters working for the "Detroit Newspapers" distribution arm went on strike. A handful of staffers crossed the picket line after a month, but the majority stayed out for the entire two and a half years of the strike, including Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Eric Freedman. The strike was resolved in court three years later, and the unions remain active at the paper, representing a majority of the employees under their jurisdiction.

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