Vox Media's editorial employees are seeking to unionize
Vox Media
- Vox Media staffers are seeking to unionize their newsrooms.
- Many digital media newsrooms have unionized in recent years, in hopes that a union can serve as a bulwark against industry turbulence.
Editorial employees at the Vox Media network of websites are set to make their unionization efforts public on Friday.
Three sources familiar with the unionization efforts, all of whom asked to remain anonymous given the sensitivity of the discussions, told Business Insider that organizers at the Vox Media network - which includes the sites The Verge, Vox, SBNation, Eater, Polygon, Racked, Curbed, and Recode - are expected to alert management and staff this morning about a union drive effort that has been ongoing in private for months.
Though Vox is known for the left-leaning politics of some of its authors, Vox Media has faced criticism in recent months over some of its employment practices.
In August, Deadspin detailed how Vox Media's sports site, SBNation, often paid managers of its fan networks relatively measly wages as contractors.
Over the past several years, employees are many major newsrooms like Vice and HuffPost have opted to unionize. Last month, employees at The Los Angeles Times announced they were attempting to form a union with the help of NewsGuild in order to secure higher pay, better benefits, and protections against changes by their parent company, Tronc.
Vox Media's unionization efforts come just two weeks after the local website networks Gothamist and DNAinfo were shut down after their editorial employees voted to unionize.
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