Journalists Associated Press declared the "unnamed" strike.

Journalists and photographers an American news agency Associated Press declared the "unnamed" strike, said France Presse on Tuesday, 16 December.
AP reporters and editors will not sign their papers (a photographer - his photographs) in protest at management plans to AP, which, if implemented, would lead to a freeze on wages, as well as to increase the cost of health insurance for employees.
"Journalists understand that it is now difficult times in the economy, but at the same time, they believe that maintaining a high standard of work of journalists Associated Press impossible without the preservation of jobs to the best of them" - told Toney Vinton (Tony Winton), president of the American union news Journalists (News Media Guild).
  The union represents 1,400 workers Associated Press in talks with the leadership of the agency over a new collective bargaining agreement, the two years. The validity of the previous expired on 30 November. Manual AP insists that during the 2009 wage employees have not increased, and increased wages in 2010 - at two per cent. In turn, News Media Guild calls for the AP annual indexation of wages by 10 percent.
Reported that the strike, which began in last Sunday, will last until the end of this week.
We remind chap. AP in November Kerli Tom (Tom Curley) said that in 2009 the state agency will be reduced by 10 percent. This will result in a reduction of about 400 staff members (of the state agency about 4100 people). The fact is that the news agency Associated Press has a 1500 American newspapers and financed, mainly through their contributions. In connection with the collapse of the U.S. advertising market due to financial crisis, newspapers were forced to reduce their allocations, which resulted in the need for layoffs.
AP is one of the three largest informagentstv world together c AFP and Reuters.