• by Ray Schultz , September 5, 2024

Union workers at The Financial Times have won their first contract, according to the Financial Times Guild.  

The details are not yet available, but the union shared these advances in general: 

• Improved retirement benefits
• Increases in pay for the lowest-paid workers 
• More time away from work for new parents 
• Workplace protections critical to members. 

“Three years, nine months — from the first meeting where we pledged to form a union, to today,” reporter Claire Bushey said about the agreement. 

Workers at the Financial Times unionized in May 2022 with the News Media Guild, a NewsGuild-CWA local. that also represents workers at the Associated Press, the Guardian, Oxford University Press and other publishers.