Tensions Flare at Troubled El Diario

By: Nicole Levy | New York Times

For years, it's called itself the "champion of the Hispanics," but lately, El Diario La Prensa, the nation's oldest Spanish-language daily newspaper and the largest in New York, hasn't been feeling all that mighty.

The unrest in its Brooklyn offices came to a head on Wednesday, when the Newspaper Guild of New York filed an unfair labor practice charge against ImpreMedia, the paper's parent company, for allegedly threatening to fire employees over their loyalty to the union.