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NewsGuild walks away from The Columbian

Sep 20, 2021

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

Vancouver’s daily newspaper moves to get rid of its union

Sep 1, 2021

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

Wave of unionization sweeps through Washington newspapers

Mar 31, 2021

Five Washington newspapers have unionized recently, the latest in a nationwide surge among print and online journalists under way since 2015.

Vancouver’s Columbian newspaper terminates union supporters

Mar 20, 2020

Of the three workers laid off March 16, two were leaders of the union campaign and were serving on the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild bargaining team.

Journalists at The Columbian newspaper in Vancouver vote overwhelmingly to unionize

Oct 31, 2019

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

Union vote scheduled at The Columbian newspaper

Oct 16, 2019

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.

Journalists unionize at Vancouver newspaper The Columbian

Sep 30, 2019

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