ICYMI: Manual Redeye: Sick of understaffing and overreach, Courier-Journal moves to unionize
EDITOR'S NOTE: Though this story is more than a month old, it is still timely because ballots for the union vote were supposed to be mailed out on Oct. 20 and tallied on Nov. 18, according to WDRB's Chris Otts. We thank Kirk Gillenwaters for sending it to us.
Editor in chief, Louisville Dupont-Manual High School Redeye
September 12, 2022
Employees at the largest newspaper in Kentucky filed their intent to unionize their newsroom with the National Labor Relations Council on August 30th.
The Courier-Journal Guild made its intent public through a tweet listing the adversities the paper has faced and explaining that “time after time, Gannett’s actions have chipped away at morale and our product.”
The Courier-Journal has been owned by media conglomerate Gannett since 1986, when longtime owner Barry Bingham sold it along with the family’s other media properties after major rifts began tearing the family apart.