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Victory at Los Angeles Times Continues Digital and Newsroom Organizing Momentum
… Los Angeles Times newsroom employees made history by voting 248 – 44 to be represented by the NewsGuild — the first newsroom union in the paper's 136-year history. … The vote at the Times is … ranks of digital media companies that understand the necessity of unions to secure basic protections for those of us who work in an always-evolving industry. A union will give us the means to maintain what we love about working for this company, … Joe Rickets, owner of New York-based sites Gothamist and DNAinfo, shut both websites down rather than recognize employees' right to organize. But those exceptions to the trend haven't slowed down working people who recognize the importance of …