SF WeeklyThe national Newspaper Guild is funding a $500,000 campaign to organize the MediaNews-owned Contra Costa Times. Management -- headed by
Dean Singleton (left) -- is notoriously anti-union so staffers won't openly discuss the issue. "It's like a pink, cross-eyed elephant is walking on two legs through the newsroom and everyone is afraid to mention it," says one staffer. Singleton says: "I've been in the newspaper business for three and a half decades, and I've never had a union work for me. Management has its own responsibilities, and for the life of me, I've never seen a union contribute to those."
