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MINNEAPOLIS The Star Tribune is asking a bankruptcy judge to cancel its contract with its 116-member printer's union and impose new terms that would save the struggling newspaper $3.5 million a year.

The Star Tribune filed the claim against the local unit of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in bankruptcy court in New York on Thursday.

The debt-laden newspaper claims the local has failed to enter serious negotiations for concessions made necessary by the sharp decline in advertising sales.

The company wants the pressmen to accept lower wages and new work rules that would reduce staffing and overtime requirements.

The Star Tribune is seeking $20 million in cost reductions from all its unionized employees and $10 million from non-union employees.

A message left with the printer's local was not immediately returned Friday.