Once again, Dallas News Guild files unfair labor practice with the feds

February 20, 2023

The Dallas News Guild has filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board related to Company handbook requirements. Dallas Morning News management told all Guild members to take training on, and attest their agreement with, the company handbook without providing the Guild with the opportunity to bargain over the handbook’s terms.

The Guild has demanded that no employee face discipline for missing today’s handbook training and attestation deadline. The Guild and the Company are in the final stages of negotiating the Guild’s first contract and the company's failure to notify the Guild, and unilateral implementation of a new handbook and mandatory training with attestation, are violations of status quo.

This is not the first unfair labor practice filed by the Guild. The Dallas News Guild has won an initial victory in its meritorious complaint to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) against The Dallas Morning News for sidestepping the union when making substantial changes to our health care plan.  (Read about that violation here.)

Sincererly,

The Dallas News Guild

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The Dallas Morning News is part of the oldest continuously operated business in Texas and the state’s leading newspaper. Proudly, we are the first major newspaper newsroom in the state to unionize in the modern era.

The Dallas News Guild covers the DMN and Al Dia, which includes more than 130 journalists across all departments of the newsroom, including reporters, columnists, data journalists, copy editors, librarians, web producers, audio producers, page designers, photographers and videographers. Eligible newsroom workers voted in October 2021 by a margin of over 75% to form a union.

Keep up with our bargaining efforts on Instagram and Twitter — @DallasNewsGuild — and at the NEWS tab at DallasNewsGuild.org.

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