And overall, McClatchy appears willing to recognize 35 employees as union members at the four papers-20 at The News Tribune, and five each at The Bellingham Herald, The Olympian, and the Tri-City Herald. The Bellingham Herald’s website lists Rasbach as a reporter, but a document submitted to the NLRB appears to say his job title is “senior editor/sports and feature (sic) breaking-news reporter.” Rasbach occasionally serves as backup editor, supporting Executive Editor and General Manager Julie Shirley.Īll told, McClatchy seeks to exclude one person from each paper. McClatchy is also asking that Dave Rasbach, onetime sports editor at The Bellingham Herald and current breaking-news reporter, be excluded from the union. “McClatchy’s attempts to make our union smaller, with newsrooms that only have a handful of workers, is something we consider to be a blatant attempt to undercut our power,” said Chase Hutchinson, a reporter for The Peninsula Gateway and The News Tribune of Tacoma. The NewsGuild will fight McClatchy’s move when both sides state their cases before the NLRB at a remote hearing, 9 a.m. 31 with the National Labor Relations Board, the newspaper chain wants the proposed union divided into four-one for each newspaper. According to a petition McClatchy filed Dec.
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News employees at the chain’s four Washington newspapers are all but certain to unionize, to protect their own interests along with the integrity of professional journalism in their communities.īut McClatchy has raised a major objection to the new bargaining unit, called the Washington State NewsGuild. McClatchy, the corporate owners of The Bellingham Herald who were taken over by a hedge fund after bankruptcy, appears willing to accept the inevitable. Topics: Whatcom County, Bellingham, News Media ,.
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