Description: Journalists at The Los Angeles Times voted overwhelmingly to form a union despite aggressive opposition from the paper’s management team, reversing more than a century of anti-union sentiment at one of the biggest newspapers in the country.

Source: NYTimes.com

Date: Jan 19, 2018

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/business/media/los-angeles-times-union.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbusiness&action=click&contentCollection=business&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront

Questions for discussion:

• What does this report say about the reasons driving the unionization effort at this company?
• What else might have contributed to the drive?