The print edition of the Anchorage Daily News is stacked at a stand at New Sagaya City Market in Anchorage on Oct. 7, 2024. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)
Non-management news staff at Alaska’s most widely read newspaper voted on whether or not to form a union on Tuesday afternoon.
Former Anchorage Daily News staff handed out doughnuts in the parking lot, and members of the employee group that is asking to be recognized as the Anchorage News Guild wore t-shirts to show their support for the cause.
Anchorage Daily News reporter Tess Williams said that contributed to a sense of excitement around the vote.
“We’ve all been working pretty hard at this for a decent amount of time now, so it’s really exciting to kind of see this finally happening,” she said.
Michelle Theriault Boots, Megan Pacer, Zachariah Hughes, Emily Goodykoontz, Jenna Kunze, Tess Williams, Alena Naiden and Marc Lester. (Photo courtesy of Emily Mesner)