In an expected move, Gawker Media staffers have voted to join a union. The votes were overwhelmingly in favor, with 80 for and only 27 against.
Gawker’s staff will now be represented by the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE).
“The next steps: determining what we want to bargain for; forming a bargaining committee; and negotiating a contract,” read a post by Gawker staff.
Update (8:43 am):
Lowell Peterson, executive director of the WGAE, issued the following statement:
“As Gawker’s writers have demonstrated, organizing in digital media is a real option, not an abstraction.
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