Word: pressmen
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...performed by the some1,300 new employees the company says are permanent replacements. The move represents a last-ditch effort by the unions to salvage a walkout that has not gone as well as hoped. The unions, representing more than 2,000 employees ranging from delivery drivers and pressmen to reporters and editors, were united in their conviction that Detroit Newspapers set out to break them. However, they were hindered from the beginning by an inability to coordinate or, ironically, to communicate clearly their rationale for striking. Many of the papers' best-known columnists, frustrated by union leadership and tempted...