Organizing Update Around CWA - The Athletic
The Athletic
Last week, workers at The Athletic sent a letter to New York Times Publisher AG Sulzberger and CEO Meredith Kopit Levien, requesting that they recognize the workers as part of the Times Guild (TNG-CWA Local 31003).
The Times acquired The Athletic, an online sports news outlet, in 2022. Despite management’s assertions that The Athletic’s operations would be separate, they have been integrated into the Times’ newsroom. Since 2023, Times staffers assigned to the Athletic have covered sports news for the organization.
The Times Guild, which represents nearly 1,500 workers in the newsroom as well as business and support staff, also sent a statement to Times management expressing their full support for their coworkers at The Athletic, writing, “We urge the company to recognize what has been true since the company began publishing The Athletic’s work under the banner of The New York Times: We are one newsroom, and our colleagues at The Athletic are Times Guild members.”
Click here to read more about worker organizing at The Athletic.
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This post originally appeared on cwa-union.org.
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