Gawker Media Ratifies Union Contract
The editorial staff of Gawker Media, which voted to unionize with the Writers Guild of America East last summer, has approved its first union contract. The vote was 88-2.
How to Harass Union Members in Incredibly Petty Ways
Some companies work well with their employees’ unions. Some companies tolerate them. And some companies—like TEGNA, the media company that used to be Gannett—seeks to find the most small-minded ways to make union members’ lives miserable.
Vice’s UK staffers are working to form a union. Their US counterparts unionized last year in search of higher pay, among other things, and are in contract negotiations now.
Union Membership Is Holding Steady at "Not Enough"
The latest annual statistics on union membership in America are out. The overall union membership rate is holding steady at 11.1%. If you are not a New Yorker or a public employee, your union rates are miserable.
The staff of the liberal think tank Center for American Progress has decided to unionize, just months after employees at the Center’s news site, ThinkProgress, unionized themselves. Whole lotta unionizing these days.
Company Re-Ices Nasty Old Cookies With New Anti-Union Message: That Ain't Sweet!
At Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia, more than 800 nurses are voting tonight on whether to unionize. The company’s shocking plan to stop them: old cookies.
After a successful employee unionization drive and a good deal of corporate foot-dragging, The Huffington Post will reportedly recognize the staff’s union this week, which would make it the largest of the recent crop of media unions.
Arianna Huffington Goes Conspicuously Silent on the Union Issue
When staffers at the Huffington Post launched their unionization campaign in October, Arianna Huffington said the company would “fully support” its workers and “embrace whatever decision they make on this issue.” She has a strange way of showing it.
Menards, the Gold Standard of Union-Hating Retailers
Menards is a large Midwestern home improvement chain most notable for the virulent anti-union mentality exhibited by its billionaire Republican owner. How much does Menards hate its own employees? Let us look.
Midwestern hardware chain Menards requires managers to sign a contract stating that their income will be reduced by 60% if employees form a union. Menards makes Walmart look like Costco! Celebrate this Christmas by peeing in the desk drawer of a Menards executive.
Huffington Post Staff Formally Asks to Unionize
For the past six months, digital media companies (including us) have been unionizing in earnest. Now, the media union movement has landed another big one.
Union Endorses Candidate That Agrees With It the Least
Yesterday, the SEIU, one of America’s strongest and most politically active labor unions, endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. Hmm.
Last week, IKEA workers in Stoughton, Massachusetts asked the company to recognize their request to unionize. Today, those workers went out on strike. IKEA still has not responded to their request, for some reason.

