La Presse newspaper issues union ultimatum

MONTREAL, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Workers at North America's largest French-language newspaper, Montreal's La Presse, were told Thursday if they didn't make concessions, the paper would fold.

Publisher Guy Crevier advised some 700 union members in an e-mail unless $13 million in concessions were made, the newspaper would stop publishing its print and Web editions Dec. 1, The (Montreal) Gazette reported.

The 125-year-old broadsheet stopped publishing Sunday editions during the summer as a cost-cutting move, the National Post said.

The main union representing the La Presse workers made no immediate comment on the ultimatum, the Gazette said.