NY TIMES TECH WORKERS VOTE FOR UNIONIZATION, START OF ‘WAVE’ IN TECH INDUSTRY

Tech workers at The New York Times voted in favor of unionizing Thursday in a 404 to 88 vote, with one software engineer saying she believes the vote is the “start of a wave of organizing in the tech industry.”
Nozlee Samadzadeh, a senior software engineer, told the Times that the union will be represented by the NewsGuild of New York, which will have a similar mandate to the newsroom’s unit. She said these issues involve “pay, diversity, and equity, a strong contract to make our workplace more fair.”
The paper said it will honor the vote that impacts about 600 software engineers and other tech-side workers. The paper has been accused of trying to silence workers who supported the push, but denied the claim.
The Times Tech Guild is considered the largest tech-worker union in the U.S., Reuters reported.
TRENDPOST: As the Trends Journal pointed out in this week’s issue and earlier ones, workers in the U.S. are looking to unions to protect them from staying in dead-end jobs with the risk of termination—all while fat-cat owners see record profits. (See “POLITICO JOURNALISTS FORM UNION. A TREND OF THE TIMES” and “UNIONIZATION,’ TOP TREND FOR 2022, ON-TREND.”)