Union is Formed at Los Angeles Times and Publisher Put on Leave

The New York Times
By Sydney Ember
January 19, 2018

Journalists at The Los Angeles Times voted overwhelmingly to form a union despite aggressive opposition from the paper's management team, reversing more than a century of anti-union sentiment at one of the biggest newspapers in the country.

Shortly after the final vote count was announced on Friday, The Time's parent company said that the newspaper's publisher, Ross Levinsohn, was taking an unpaid leave of absence while a law firm investigated allegations of coarse workplace behavior while he was employed by other companies.

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