Al Jazeera America becomes the latest new media organization to unionize

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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/06/al-jazeera-america-votes-to-unionize

Staff voted in favour 32 to 5 Tuesday, the National Labor Relations Board declared after counting the ballots cast by the eligible employees

Al Jazeera America becomes the latest new media organization to unionize
Jana Kasperkevic in New York
Tuesday 6 October 2015 12.16 EDT

Al Jazeera America’s digital newsroom became the latest new media organization to unionize on Tuesday.

Staff voted in favour 32 to 5, the National Labor Relations Board declared after counting the ballots cast by eligible employees.

Al Jazeera America is the latest of a number of newsrooms to unionize this year. Guardian US editorial staff, Gawker, Salon and Vice have all had internal votes or petitions and were voluntarily recognized by their management. So far, Al Jazeera America has been the only new media outlet that has organized its vote through the National Labor Relations Board.

Peter Szekely, president of the News Guild, said he was “disappointed” that the management did not voluntarily recognize the unionization efforts, but was confident that the NLRB vote would go in the workers’ favor.

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1. Writers need unions!