{"id":199015,"date":"2026-03-10T23:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/199015\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T23:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:42:07","slug":"fort-worth-report-staff-votes-to-unionize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/199015\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth Report staff votes to unionize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staff at the Fort Worth news outlet voted overwhelmingly in favor of union representation, staff announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>FORT WORTH, Texas \u2014 Staff at the Fort Worth Report, a nonprofit news outlet, voted overwhelmingly to form a union, they announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A secret ballot election was triggered due to the nonprofit&#8217;s leadership declining to voluntarily recognize the Fort Worth Reporters Guild in late January. At a vote of 11-1, journalists and non-management staff were in favor for union representation. The Fort Worth Reporters Guild will be part of The NewsGuild-CWA and the Media Guild of the West.<\/p>\n<p>Through this unionization, staff can now negotiate as a union for contracts governing their working conditions and pay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese results were not based on mob rule, but rather a reflection of every single unit member who has been heavily involved in this process since its launch,\u201d the Guild\u2019s organizing committee said in a statement. \u201cThis is the next and vital step for our community newsroom, and we look forward to steering trusted news forward in Tarrant County together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chris Cobler, the Fort Worth Report&#8217;s founding editor, publisher and CEO, <a href=\"https:\/\/fortworthreport.org\/2026\/03\/09\/some-fort-worth-report-employees-vote-to-unionize\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">wrote a response<\/a> to the unionization on Monday, where he said leadership respects their right to organize and they will start negotiating a collective bargaining agreement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Throughout this process, our organization\u2019s commitment to Fort Worth and its residents will not change,&#8221; Cobler wrote. &#8220;We will continue delivering free, fair and independent local reporting that supports an informed and engaged civic life in Fort Worth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Fort Worth Reporters Guild accused management of several union-avoidance measures in recent weeks, such as hiring a third-party labor relations firm specializing in keeping workplaces &#8220;union free.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Improvements the union will advocate for, it says, include regular raises, a transparent pay scale and protections against unjust firings and layoffs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Guild looks forward to working with the Report\u2019s management and board of directors to establish a fair and constructive bargaining process in the near future,&#8221; the union said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Staff at the Fort Worth news outlet voted overwhelmingly in favor of union representation, staff announced Monday. FORT&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-199015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-fort-worth","9":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","10":"tag-fort-worth-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}