Newspaper Unions in Texas Fight for First Contracts
“In the notoriously anti-labor Lone Star State, three recently unionized newsrooms are fighting for their first collective bargaining agreements, the contracts that will determine their future working conditions. Often, this is a long and gruelling process. At Texas’ three union newspapers, workers report,” reports Gus Bova in Observer.
“In July of 2020, journalists at the Dallas Morning News became the first to announce they were unionizing in Texas. They were followed by workers. All decided to join the NewsGuild, part of a growing nationwide trend as journalists fought back against layoffs and corporate predation. There hadn’t been a union paper in Texas since.”
