FT’s US journalists are seeking to unionize
Journalists at the Financial Times are seeking to unionize the publication’s U.S. operation, reports Josh Eidelson of Bloomberg News. Eidelson writes, “Employees involved in the drive said they’ve signed up more than two-thirds of a proposed bargaining unit of about 40 people and are asking the company to voluntarily recognize their union. In an emailed statement, the […]
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 […]
Bloomberg Industry seeks a labor reporter
Performs general assignment and beat reporting and writes in-depth analytical pieces under supervision. Researches and writes news stories and features for assigned publication(s), including beat reporting, with supervision. Job Description: Ability to report and write news stories and features under deadline. Basic knowledge of journalism principles and techniques. Knowledge of federal and state legislative, regulatory, […]
Labor coverage rebounding due to COVID
Former New York Times labor reporter Steven Greenhouse writes for Nieman Reports about how coverage around labor and workplace issues is rising due to COVID-19. Greenhouse writes, “But in the last dozen years, there has been a resurgence of the labor beat, largely fueled by two developments: the Great Recession, which saw the jobless rate jump to […]
Wirecutter raises $42,000 for workers who went on strike
Supporters of Wirecutter, the product-recommendation site whose staffers went on strike for five days, have raised over $42,000 to help compensate workers for missed overtime pay, reports Allison Prang of The Wall Street Journal. Prang writes, “Unionized staffers went on strike from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday due to a contract stalemate with the site’s owner, the New […]
Wirecutter’s journalists planning to strike around Black Friday
Journalists at the New York Times Co.’s Wirecutter unit plan to strike during the product review website’s peak traffic period around Black Friday, reports Josh Eidelson of Bloomberg News. Eidelson reports, “Over 90% of Wirecutter union members have voted to authorize a work stoppage lasting one or more days in late November, according to the NewsGuild, which […]
Labor coverage is coming back in a big way
Ben Smith of the New York Times writes about the return of labor coverage at many publications. Smith writes, “Steven Greenhouse, a former labor reporter for The New York Times, told me that for a time in the 2000s, he was the ‘the only full-time daily labor reporter.’ Now, there are at least a dozen at […]
Reporting on the Workplace seminar to take place at CUNY in January
The second “Reporting the U.S. Workplace” program for journalists covering labor issues will be held Jan. 6-7, 2022, at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. Tom Robbins, the J-School’s Investigative Journalist in Residence, will return as the program’s convener. This program is designed to bring business journalists up to speed on how to cover […]
NW Labor Press seeks a reporter
The Northwest Labor Press is looking to hire a skilled and hard-working writer to report on the labor movement and issues that matter to working people. THE PUBLICATION The Northwest Labor Press is an independent union-supported regional newspaper. It goes out twice a month in print to about 50,000 union households in Oregon and Southwest […]
Fortune postpones CEO conference after employees plan strike
Fortune magazine has postponed its CEO Initiative conference for later this month after its editorial employees, seeking a union contract with the publication, said they would strike for those two days, reports Maxwell Tani of The Daily Beast. Tani reports, “But ahead of the union’s announcement of the strike, Fortune CEO Alan Murray wrote in a Tuesday email to […]
