KAREN BLEIER via Getty Images As the staff of Washingtonian magazine attempts to form a union, the CEO is running a full-court press against the effort. The chief executive of Washingtonian magazine is throwing everything she’s got at her staff’s effort to form a union. The Washingtonian employees are voting on whether to join a different NewsGuild local, the Washington-Baltimore NewsGuild, where the increase under consideration does not apply. “This anti-union presentation suggests that union members will have worse benefits than excluded employees, but the opposite is true,” Hess wrote to HuffPost. Washingtonian staffers sought voluntary recognition but the magazine declined, requiring staffers to vote in an election.

Source: Huffington Post August 02, 2021 16:06 UTC