Record-Courier newsroom employees form union to fight for better pay, benefits, job security
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Newsroom staffers at the 191-year-old Record-Courier, a Kent-based local news outlet covering Portage County, are unionizing as they fight for better pay, benefits and job security.
The newsroom, which has been greatly diminished in recent years amid different owners, consists of seven people who say they have signed and filed cards with the National Labor Relations Board to be represented by the NewsGuild-CWA (Communications Workers of America).
The guild s members include journalists and other employees working for various publications, broadcasts and other news services in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Also represented by the guild are employees at Record-Courier sister publications the Akron Beacon Journal, Canton Repository and Massillon Independent.
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The end of June saw temperatures soar all around the United States, with historic heatwaves in the Pacific Northwest and excessive heat advisories, watches and warnings elsewhere. The heat is not just uncomfortable, it’s deadly, buckling roads and melting bridges, with temperatures climbing over 120 degrees in Death Valley, California and British Columbia.
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Five key labor unions sent a letter to President Biden this week urging him to change Jessica Rosenworcel’s status from acting FCC chair to permanent.
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