Daily Beast: Media Union Turns to Republican Lobbyists to Help Save the Industry

The top media union in North America is looking to hire a Republican lobbying firm in hopes that bipartisan support on Capitol Hill may save the industry as it faces an existential crisis. 

NewsGuild-CWA, which has 30,000-plus members, has met with GOP lobbyists to solicit their help on economic rescue packages coming from Congress in response to the market crash sparked by the coronavirus pandemic. The union, which is an affiliate of the Communications Workers for America, has not yet made a hire. But they are planning to do so, in what would be an act of overt politicking unlike anything the union has done in recent memory. 

“We have not engaged in political work like this in decades,” said Jon Schleuss, the president of NewsGuild-CWA. “But it is essential because this looks like an extinction-level event.” 

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