Journalists at the Centre Daily Times (State College, Pennsylvania) have ratified their first collective bargaining agreement with McClatchy in balloting that was tallied Tuesday.
The entire unionization process, from organizing to ratifying, took the community newspaper less than four full months after they organized in May. The agreement, won with support from The NewsGuild of Greater Philadelphia, covers eight workers and boasts significant gains in pay and AI protections over the length of the agreement.
“We were highly motivated to start a union,” said Josh Moyer, one of the union organizers and a nine-year veteran of the news outlet. “Our two priorities involved fairer pay and AI protections and, thanks to the unions that came before us and fought for those same principles, we were able to reach an agreement in record time.
“This is an important day for the Centre Daily Times. And I can’t thank The NewsGuild enough for guiding us through the process and McClatchy for bargaining with us in good faith.”
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