Categories: OLD Media Moves

Is WSJ headed for a strike?

Joe Strupp of Editor & Publisher writes Monday that many journalists at The Wall Street Journal want the union that represents them to consider a strike in the wake of unacceptable offers from management.

Strupp wrote, “Jim Browning, head of bargaining for the Independent Association of Publishers’ Employees, which represents some 2,000 Dow Jones employees, said a strike vote could be called as early as this weekend when the IAPE board meets.

“‘A lot of people want to have a strike vote,’ Browning said. ‘It is increasingly likely; a lot of people want that to happen.’

“He said the mood is sharply different from the last contract talks four years ago, which ended with a four-year deal that included no raise the first year and annual raises of 2.5% to 4 % in the following three years.

“‘Last time around, people were very reluctant to discuss a strike, that has changed,’ Browning said. ‘Now people, especially younger people, say ‘when are we taking a strike vote?'”

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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.