Union members approve one-year contract with Dow Jones

A majority of the members of IAPE The NewsGuild-CWA Local 1096 that represent journalists at Dow Jones & Co. have voted to approve a new, one-year collective agreement.

Polls closed Friday at 12 p.m. EDT, and 94.3% of voting members approved the new agreement, while approximately 5.7% chose to reject the deal.

More than two-thirds — 67.4% — of eligible members participated in this ratification vote, the highest percentage for an IAPE election in recent memory, with 883 of 1,310 eligible voters casting electronic ballots. The Union’s election provider, TrueBallot Inc., certified the ratification results with a final count of 833 in favor and 50 opposed.

IAPE and Dow Jones representatives will now meet to sign a memorandum of agreement. Terms of the new contract will take effect immediately and will expire on June 30, 2023.

Dow Jones is the parent of The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch.com and Barron’s.

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.