Tribune journalists’ class action faces setback

CHICAGO — A group of Black and female Chicago Tribune journalists’ class action was partially dismissed by an Illinois federal court that said the reporters’ equal pay claims lacked sufficient factual details and did not say enough to compare the employees’ work. According to the lawsuit, the Tribune fails to pay women and Black employees as well as their white and male counterparts because the paper relies on journalists’ past salary history when determining new hires’ pay, but also recruits white male journalists from higher-paying publications than Black and female journalists are pulled from.