Record-Courier newsroom employees form union to fight for better pay, benefits, job security
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Newsroom staffers at the 191-year-old Record-Courier, a Kent-based local news outlet covering Portage County, are unionizing as they fight for better pay, benefits and job security.
The newsroom, which has been greatly diminished in recent years amid different owners, consists of seven people who say they have signed and filed cards with the National Labor Relations Board to be represented by the NewsGuild-CWA (Communications Workers of America).
The guild s members include journalists and other employees working for various publications, broadcasts and other news services in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Also represented by the guild are employees at Record-Courier sister publications the Akron Beacon Journal, Canton Repository and Massillon Independent.
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