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How we unionized the digital team at The Seattle Times (and how you can do it at your company too)
A mini-diary of the organizing experience, including a timeline, resources you can rely on, and decision points you might face.
By Michelle Baruchman May 10, 2021, 11:14 a.m.
May 10, 2021, 11:14 a.m.
The digital journalists at The Seattle Times ended a decades-long, arbitrary divide within the company last fall by voting to unionize and join our peers in the existing Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild, which already represented more than 100 employees at the paper who are not categorized as “digital” employees.
The official process itself took four months, preceded by more than one year of organizing and several years of conversations among colleagues.