The Teamsters union that represents drivers at the Star Tribune ratified a new agreement with the company on Wednesday, moving the newspaper's owners one step closer to emerging from bankruptcy.

One hundred union members and their supporters rallied and marched at the Los Angeles Times newspaper headquarters February 23 to protest management's union-busting tactics and retaliatory campaign against pressroom workers.

Members of the Newspaper and Mail Deliverers’ Union (NMDU) overwhelmingly voted today to affiliate with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The 1,500 NMDU members, who deliver bulk newspapers to retail outlets in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut, will be members of the new Teamsters Local 1901 in Long Island City, New York. They also join 14,000 Teamsters as part of the union’s Newspaper Division.