One of Ours

Wall Street Journal reporters plan to withhold their bylines from stories for two days this week as contract negotiations with their employer, Dow Jones & Co., turn increasingly rancorous.

The Independent Association of Publishers Employees, a union representing U.S. reporters at the Journal, called on its members Monday to withhold their bylines from stories in Wednesday and Thursday editions of the paper.

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Lauricella said the byline strike, the first in the history of Dow Jones, was being called because the company had threatened to stop negotiating with the union and to impose a "punitive" contract, he said.

"It came to this because Dow Jones continues to refuse to negotiate in good faith," Lauricella said. "The company is demanding we take benefits cuts and paltry wage raises that will leave us behind the [rise in the] cost of living."...