Gawker Media Employees Vote to Form a Union, and the Bosses Approve
Source: NY Times
By NOAM SCHEIBER
Employees at Gawker Media, the company that publishes websites like Gawker and Jezebel, voted by a substantial margin on Wednesday to form a union, a first for a prominent digital media outlet.
The workers announced the organizing effort in April and conducted some of it publicly, including a long, free-ranging discussion by staff members on the Gawker website under the headline “How We’re Voting on the Union, and Why.”
“I didn’t know how it was going to go till the vote came in,” said Hamilton Nolan, a senior writer who played a central role in the organizing. “Since we had a lot of public discussion about it, it might have given the appearance of more anger, opposition, that might not have numerically played out.”
In all, 107 of 118 eligible writers, editors, illustrators and video producers cast a vote, 80 of them in favor of the union, according to Gawker.
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Nick Denton, second from left, the founder of Gawker, said the union "will close off a few options, none of them very appealing anyway. And it will open so many more." Credit Akos Stiller for The New York Times
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