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Organizing Update

Law360

A 92 percent majority of the editorial staff of legal news website Law360 voted for representation by The NewsGuild of New York in an NLRB election on Wednesday, despite an intense three-week management anti-union campaign. The Law360 staff includes more than 130 reporters, editors, news assistants, and apprentices across the United States. Law360, a publisher of legal news and analysis, is owned by LexisNexis Group.

The Guild petitioned the NLRB for an election on July 19. Management not only rejected the Guild's request for voluntary recognition, but it also brought in a "union avoidance" consulting firm. Employees were pulled into daily, hour-long meetings with the consultants, LexisNexis executives, and senior Law360 managers, all urging them to vote no. Five days before the election, the editor-in-chief and a managing editor were fired and escorted out of the building, a move many employees saw as a dramatic effort by management to show that it was ready to make changes if they rejected the Guild.

"Today's result is a testament to the passionate efforts of Law360's dedicated journalists," said Sindhu Sundar, a Law360 features reporter. "We're incredibly excited for this new chapter of our history."


Law360 staff outside the NLRB office where ballots were counted.

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DirecTV

More than 50 Puerto Rico Customer Service agents at DirecTV Regional Offices now have a voice in their workplace and are represented by Local 3010 in San Juan.


Local officers at their first meeting with DTV management in San Juan, Puerto Rico.