The Independent Association of Publishers’ Employees (IAPE), Local 1096 of The NewsGuild-CWA, called on Dow Jones management to stop union busting efforts at its London offices.
In February of this year, newsroom staff at The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires in London organized as a chapel under the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and served notice on Dow Jones management that they sought recognition as an independent union.
Yesterday, just three days before Dow Jones’s deadline to voluntarily recognize NUJ, or else face their petition with a UK arbitration body, Dow Jones Chief People Officer Dianne DeSevo informed staff that ‘the Company decided not to recognize the NUJ as it would only represent a small subset of our colleagues,’ and that instead, ‘we looked at the representative body for our sister companies, News UK and NCS UK, at London Bridge.’
“‘We felt News Union was a better option than the NUJ because they are able to represent all eligible Dow Jones International (DJI) employees, not just those in the Newsroom,’ DeSevo wrote. ‘Therefore, the Company has signed a recognition agreement with News Union.'”
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