“Every workplace could use a union,” Hamilton Nolan wrote this spring, announcing a group of Gawker Media’s editorial staff wanted to unionize. Shortly after the plan to join the Writers Guild of America East passed a majority vote at Gawker, a wave of unionization swept through digital publishing, with editorial staffers at Salon, The Guardian US, and Vice organizing similar internal movements. “Digital media is growing up and it’s time our digital reporters received the same benefits and protections as their print media colleagues,” Bernard Lunzer, president of the NewsGuild-CWA, which The Guardian will be joining, said at the time of the announcement.

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