Byline: Associated Press
A racketeering lawsuit filed Thursday by newsstand operators accuses the striking Daily News drivers' union of authorizing and encouraging a campaign of violence to stop vendors from selling the paper.
The class-action lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan was brought by two individual newsstand owners on behalf of the city's approximately 12,000 news vendors.
It seeks more than $30 million in damages from the Newspaper & Mail Deliverers' Union of New York and its president, Michael Alvino. The drivers' union is one of nine unions that have been on strike against the paper since Oct. 25.
A call to Alvino was …
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