Dow Jones union: Two-thirds of workers want required vaccinations

Two-thirds of IAPE members responding to union surveys would prefer COVID-19 vaccinations to be required for any Dow Jones employee to work in the office, and 71 percent of members say they do not plan on volunteering to return to a Dow Jones office during the company’s “Phase 2” reopening stage.

Two IAPE surveys, conducted prior to the announcement this week from Dow Jones CEO Almar Latour that offices in the Americas are scheduled to proceed to Phase 2 on Sept. 7, received responses from approximately 20 percent of all IAPE-represented employees.

Not surprisingly, news staffers are the largest single component of survey participants, with 49 percent of replies to survey questions about desk packing and voluntary return plans, and 41 percent of respondents to questions about requirements for vaccinations, masks and COVID testing.

The union represents journalists at The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch.com and Dow Jones Newswires.

For survey results according to Dow Jones division — News, Sales, Technology and Other — see the IAPE website at iape1096.org/surveyresults.

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.