The would-be union’s list of goals includes better pay for eligible employees at Alaska’s most widely read newspaper and news website.
The newsroom at the Anchorage Daily News, the most widely read newspaper and news website in Alaska, plans to unionize.Sixteen out of 20 eligible newsroom employees – that’s 80% of reporters, photographers and editors not in management – recently signed cards supporting the formation of a union, according to a news release from the proposed union, dubbed the Anchorage News Guild.
It would be the only union-organized newsroom in Alaska and likely the first of its kind in the state. “A key thing for everyone is a desire for fair wages and regular wages that can keep up with the cost of inflation,” DeMarban said. “And so we just want to be able to pay the bills that keep going up, and also to help make the paper more sustainable, so that we can basically get paid enough to continue working there and continue producing, you know, the high-quality product that Alaskans want.”
Anchorage Daily News management, including its publisher and top editor, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.cut its printing schedule to two days a week
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