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.
