Unbiased Affiliation of Publishers’ Workers board licensed a strike vote to be carried out by its members working at Dow Jones & Co.
The member referendum would be the first such vote within the union’s 87-year historical past.
“In the present day, the IAPE Board of Administrators responded to a name for motion,” stated Native 1096 President Jodi Inexperienced. “That decision got here from our members, who’ve expressed their displeasure with Dow Jones administration’s contract proposals. Our members demand stronger collective motion to protest the corporate’s contract supply.”
IAPE represents greater than 1,400 staff at Dow Jones places throughout america and Canada — together with newsroom, expertise, gross sales and administration employees at The Wall Road Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch, Factiva and different Dow Jones merchandise.
The union has been in negotiations for a brand new collective bargaining settlement since June 13, 2023. The contract between the union and the corporate expired on April 1, 2024, following a sequence of negotiated extensions.
Beneath the union’s bylaws, IAPE board authorization to name a membership strike vote is step one in a three-stage course of earlier than members are permitted to stroll off the job. A majority of IAPE members should vote in favor of strike motion, and the chief board of CWA should approve a strike towards Dow Jones.
The union plans to schedule a secret-ballot membership vote as rapidly as potential. Within the meantime, contract negotiations between IAPE representatives and Dow Jones administration will proceed.
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