Fortune union: We won’t return to office until talks resume

Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, a Fortune reporter who leads the editorial union, sent the following to magazine management on Friday:

To Fortune management,
NewsGuild newsroom employees will not be following the company’s 2025 return-to-office edict until the issue has been properly negotiated as part of a complete contract with the NewsGuild. Our bargaining committee sent the Guild’s RTO counterproposal on January 6, 2025, and you have not replied or even acknowledged receipt.
Members will instead be sticking to current routines, as any return-to-office policy is illegal until a contract is in place. Workers deemed to be remoted are signing this letter in solidarity with colleagues.
As usual, we are ready, willing, and able to resume negotiations immediately and work forward a fair and settled contract.
Sincerely,
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez.

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.