Categories: OLD Media Moves

Reuters journalists get longer lunch as contract talks slow

A work-to-rule action at Thomson Reuters on Monday translated into an hour-long lunch for the company’s journalists, reports Ginger Adams Otis of the New York Daily News.

Otis reports, “Entire desks across Reuters’ busy newsrooms took breaks at their appointed times on Monday, and made sure to clock out exactly at the end of each shift.

“The work-to-rule action grew out of employee dissatisfaction with the slow pace of contract talks between Reuters and The NewsGuild of New York, said union representative Susan DeCarava.

“‘There’s a very robust network of activists in our Thomson Reuters shop … the idea came out of different members contacting The Guild and asking what they can do,” DeCarava said.”

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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.