For many media unions, the latest battleground is not the fight for wage increases or promotions: It’s the return to in-person work.
Nearly two years since the pandemic began, media employees are still dissatisfied with their companies’ plans to bring them back to the office. Unions represented by the NewsGuild of New York and the Writers Guild of America, East are struggling to find common ground with management. They say the return to office plans presented to them aren’t safe enough and aren’t including unions in the process, while management believes they are doing what they can to prioritize employees’ health and safety. All of this has been exacerbated by the recent wave of COVID-19 infections spurred by the omicron variant.
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