Members of the newsroom staff of The Omaha World-Herald
have filed cards with the National Labor Relations Board stating their desire
to be represented by The NewsGuild-CWA. Seventy-five percent of the 95
journalists who work as reporters, copy editors, designers and photographers in
The World-Herald’s newsroom signed cards, said a
news release from the guild.
The cards, filed on Sept. 13, will trigger an
NLRB-monitored election by World-Herald staff members in the next 20 to 40 days
unless the newspaper’s owner, Omaha-based BH Media Group, part of billionaire
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway company, voluntarily recognizes The
NewsGuild as the workers’ union, according to the guild.
The World-Herald, which BH Media’s website
says has more than 100,000 print subscribers and 1 million unique visitors per
month at Omaha.com,
would become the first newspaper in Nebraska
BH Media struck a deal with Iowa-based Lee
Enterprises to manage The World-Herald and other BH Media papers. Lee’s
management began in July.
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