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Law360 staffers vote to strike

Unionized editorial workers at LexisNexis-owned Law360 voted to authorize a strike Monday.

The union says the strike is due to lack of progress at the bargaining table, unlawful tactics that violate union members’ rights and planned layoffs following record profits in 2023.

Law360 Union is part of the NewsGuild of New York, which represents nearly 7,000 media workers.

The strike authorization vote took place Sunday through Monday, with just over 95% of the union’s members voting and 96% approving the strike. Bargaining team members notified management at the bargaining table Tuesday.

“What this vote means is that we are standing together and ready to walk off the job indefinitely unless LexisNexis and Law360 do the right thing by us and the people who pay to subscribe to our work,” said Hailey Konnath, a reporter for Law360 and unit chair for the union, in a statement. “Terminating our members and dragging out contract talks has forced us to this point and we want to be absolutely clear we will not back down.”

On Feb. 15, LexisNexis officials announced their intention to terminate 10% of newsroom staff. Contract negotiations between the union, which represents nearly 300 workers, and LexisNexis began on Nov. 17, 2022. The union’s current contract expired on Dec. 31, 2022.

The NewsGuild of New York filed an unfair labor practice charge on behalf of Law360 Union against LexisNexis after company reps threatened Guild members with less favorable terms the longer negotiations continue.

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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