Three more Gannett newspapers move to unionize

[TexasTowelie]

Three more Gannett newspapers announced plans to unionize, with 31 employees of the Asbury Park Press, Courier News and Home News Tribune signing on in a bid to join the NewsGuild of New York.

The Bergen Record, Daily Record and New Jersey Herald voted to form a union earlier this year, and a group of digital producers for Gannett newspapers in New Jersey and four other states voted to unionize earlier this month. All have joined the NewsGuild, an arm of the Communications Workers of America Local 31003.

“For over a decade, we have lived in fear for our livelihood as our corporate owner, Gannett, decimated our newsrooms with routine layoffs and buyouts, depriving our readers of decades of institutional knowledge and damaging our local journalism,” the 31 journalists and staff said in a statement posted on their website.

Journalists at four other Gannett-owned newspapers in the state – The Daily Journal, Courier-Post, Burlington County Times, and New Jersey Biz — have not publicly announced plans to unionize.

Read more: https://newjerseyglobe.com/media/three-more-gannett-newspapers-move-to-unionize/

[Walleye]

1. So glad to hear this. Are used to work at a Gannett paper

Started there in the early 90s. They were trying to keep the union out so they had very good benefits. We had the union but we never got a contract. As the years went on there eventually and gradually chipped away at all our benefits