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WDRB: 'Louisville deserves better' | Courier Journal newsroom to unionize

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By CHRIS OTTS

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Fed up with staff cuts, resignations and low pay, about 35 newsroom employees at the Pulitzer Prize-winning Courier Journal announced Tuesday that they are unionizing.    

"Gannett, the company that owns The Courier Journal, must be held accountable for the staff bleed during the pandemic and chronically low wages at the paper," members of the Courier Journal Guild said in a news release. "Thirty-four staffers have left The Courier Journal over the last two years alone, leaving fewer eyes on community issues that readers care about."

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