Labor Flexes New Muscles in Online Media
Law360, a legal news arm of LexisNexis, is threatened with a strike as labor organizers target a turbulent industry.
Journalists at a prominent legal news website voted to authorize a strike, escalating the conflict between a convulsive digital media industry and a U.S. labor movement that’s made the sector a target.
Employees of Law360, a unit of LexisNexis, voted two years ago to unionize but have been unable to secure a contract. On Tuesday night, they voted 141 to 11 to greenlight a work stoppage, according to the Communications Workers of America’s NewsGuild.
“It’s the most serious action that we could take, and although we don’t want to and we’re not planning to, we just want the company to know that we’re willing to if it comes to that,” said Law360 reporter and local union leader Juan Carlos Rodriguez. “They’ve just been dragging their feet.”