Reporters Unionize
September 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
On June 3, workers at New York-based Gawker Media became the first employees of a major digital media company to organize a union.
Journalists at San Francisco-based Salon followed suit, voting to unionize on July 2.
On July 29, staff at the Guardian US voted unanimously to unionize. They will be represented by the Newspaper Guild.
Gawker employees will be represented by the Writers Guild of America, East. As this issue went to press, Salon workers did not have representation.
Reporters for popular news sites such as Gawker, Jezebel and Deadspin voted in a secret ballot election 80-27 to bargain collectively for a contract.