Salt Lake Tribune workers form union

Newsroom workers at The Salt Lake Tribune have voted to seek union representation and have received word from the newspaper’s management that it will voluntarily recognize those efforts. In July, a “supermajority” of the publication’s reporters, photographers, web designers and artists organized the Salt Lake News Guild to represent their interests in negotiating a labor contract.

Labor laws allow for ownership and management to simply recognize the union organization and proceed to negotiate with it to draft a labor contract. Tribune CEO and Executive Editor Lauren Gustus notified the guild that the paper will recognize it as representing the workers and proceed to contract negotiations, thus avoiding a National Labor Relations Board polling of the Please log in to see the rest of this story.