Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild

The union that Vancouver’s daily newspaper journalists cheerfully announced in 2019 is no more.

After 21 months of supposed negotiations, The Columbian is asking the National Labor Relations Board to hold a new union election. 

The union vote comes as part of an extraordinary wave of unionization in print and online media.

Management at the family-owned paper isn’t mounting the kind of scorched-earth anti-union campaign that some employers use, but is making it clear they hope employees will vote no.

They love the work they do, and want a union so they can make The Columbian a place they can continue to work.