Newsroom
employees at The Los Angeles Times are trying to form a union, setting
up a potential clash with the newspaper’s parent company, Tronc.
After months of organizing, the committee
behind the push for a union drafted a one-page letter laying out its
reasoning and left printouts on employees’ desks Tuesday night.
The
unsigned letter calls for improved working conditions, higher pay, more
generous benefits and protections for staff members against “unilateral
change by Tronc.”
The
letter also says “a majority of the newsroom” had signed union cards
supporting representation by the NewsGuild, which represents 25,000
reporters, editors, photojournalists and other media workers at news
organizations across the United States.
Several
people involved in the organizing push, all of whom spoke on condition
of anonymity because they feared losing their jobs if they were to speak
publicly about the effort, put the number of those who had signed the
union cards at roughly 200.
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Source: The New York Times
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