"They're desperate to do this work to tell the stories that the folks in our communities want to hear," says Jon Schleuss, now the president of the NewsGuild-CWA. "When you have corporations, hedge funds, the billionaire [owners] and then really bad management, they're looking around being like, 'What's going to happen? ... Who's going to be here?'"
Unionized workers in vibrant industries from autoworkers to UPS drivers to pilots have recently won double-digit pay raises and more say over their working conditions through collective bargaining. But in the ailing news business, are unions even strong enough to stem the bleeding of closures and layoffs?
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