Journalists at The Athletic, a sports activities information web site owned by The New York Occasions, intend to unionize, they mentioned on Monday.
A bunch of about 200 editorial staff in the USA have requested The Occasions to acknowledge them as a part of the Occasions Guild, which represents almost 1,500 members together with reporters, editors and different editorial staff on the newspaper.
The Occasions purchased The Athletic in early 2022 for $550 million. In July 2023, the newspaper mentioned it will disband its sports activities part and depend on protection from The Athletic.
“The work we do is union work, and we consider we ought to be afforded the identical advantages and protections because the Occasions Guild members beneath their present contract,” Katie Strang, a senior investigative author for The Athletic, mentioned in a press release.
The Occasions Guild, which is affiliated with the NewsGuild of New York, represents reporters and a few editors at The New York Occasions. Tech staff at The Occasions and staff at Wirecutter, a product suggestion web site owned by the newspaper, are represented by separate bargaining models.
Leaders of the Occasions Guild on Monday urged The New York Occasions to acknowledge that “our colleagues at The Athletic are Occasions Guild members.”
If The Occasions doesn’t voluntarily acknowledge the Athletic staff as a part of the union, the NewsGuild of New York mentioned it will take up the matter with the Nationwide Labor Relations Board.
A Occasions spokesman, Jordan Cohen, mentioned in an electronic mail that the corporate was reviewing the request from The Athletic’s newsroom.
