WASHINGTON — Unionized ProPublica employees walked off the job this week for a 24-hour strike over issues ranging from their lack of a collective bargaining agreement to the nonprofit news service’s implementation of artificial intelligence.
“We’re close, but we don’t quite have the momentum to seal a deal,” one of those employees told The Well News as their colleagues chanted and waved signs outside the National Press Building on 14th Street.
The employees walking the picket line across the street from the Willard Hotel voted to organize in 2023, and said their guild has grown to more than 140 members in the intervening years…