Halifax paper asks freelancers to scab

The Chronicle Herald has contacted freelance journalists and recent graduates to replace reporters during a possible work stoppage.
A late November email from Herald management, provided to CBC News by one of the freelancers, asks if the journalist would be interested in “freelancing more regularly” for the weeklies or “writing for the daily.”
“That need could grow soon as we are in the middle of labour negotiations that may end in a strike or lockout before the end of the year,” the paper’s vice president of news, Brian Ward, wrote in the email.
The email offers “full time contracts of up to four months” should there be a work stoppage.
“People would generally work from their homes and we would publish without bylines,” the email said.
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