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Dow Jones union settles unfair labor complaint against company

The Independent Association of Publishers’ Employees (IAPE), Local 1096 settled an Unfair Labor Practice charge against Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch.com and Barron’s.

The almost-year-long dispute was scheduled to proceed to trial tomorrow morning.

The IAPE charge led to the National Labor Relations Board filing a complaint against Dow Jones last September, stating, “Since about October 2, 2020, (Dow Jones) has failed and refused to bargain collectively and in good faith with the Union.”

Under the terms of the settlement, Dow Jones will be required to post notices confirming that it “will not, upon request, refuse to bargain in good faith with IAPE as the exclusive collective-bargaining representative of our employees in the above-described unit regarding mandatory subjects of bargaining concerning certain remote working conditions related to the impact of the COVID epidemic on your terms and conditions of employment.”

The posting also confirms that Dow Jones will not interfere with employee rights under Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act. Physical notices must be posted on bulletin boards at Dow Jones offices in New York, Princeton, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington. Electronic notices must be posted for 60 days on Dow Jones’s intranet, including a news feed item on its Coronavirus Microsite.

“This is an important victory for IAPE,” said union president Jodi Green. “Throughout this long process, we have shown that our union is tenacious in enforcing our legal rights and the rights of all our members.”

Read more here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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