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On Wednesday, Feb. 24, the editorial staff at the Austin American-Statesman voted 36-12 to form a union, becoming the third unionized newsroom in Texas and the second, after The Dallas Morning News, to do so through an election overseen by the National Labor Relations Board. (The Fort Worth Star-Telegram s newsroom union was voluntarily recognized by the paper s owners, the McClatchy Co.) Last week s vote at the NLRB s regional office in Ft. Worth came two months after Statesman editorial employees first announced their desire to organize in December, and after the paper s owner, Gannett Co., the largest newspaper publisher in the U.S., declined to recognize an Austin chapter of

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