Law360 management won’t raise objections to union vote

Management of legal news website Law360.com said late Wednesday afternoon that it wouldn’t raise any objections to the union vote results of its editorial staff.

Management said it expects the vote to be certified in the next few days by the National Labor Relations Board so that negotiations can get begin.

Law360’s editorial staffers voted 109-9 last month to join the News Guild of New York. Law360 is owned by LexisNexis Group, a subsidiary of RELX Group.

The petition to join the union followed an incident where management enforced a non-compete agreement against a recently departed employee. As part of a recent settlement with New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman, which stemmed from an investigation initiated by The News Guild, the company has discontinued its practice of requiring employees to sign non-compete agreements, which had restricted their ability to find other jobs.

The company aggressively tried to convince journalists not to join the union through meetings with the staff.