Union Collaboration

NORTHAMPTON — Workers at Safe Passage, a Northampton-based social services organization with a mission to end domestic violence and relationship abuse, officially unionized after not receiving voluntary recognition from the organization’s board of directors earlier this year. Workers voted 14-6 in favor of becoming affiliated with United Auto Workers 2322 in Holyoke when ballots were counted on June 25, according to election results posted online by the National Labor Relations Board. NORTHAMPTON – Employees of the Daily Hampshire Gazette and the Valley Advocate formed the Pioneer Valley NewsGuild, a labor union with the mission of providing employees a voice in company decisions. A small organizing committee comprising Gazette and Advocate employees worked with an organizer from the News Guild-Communication Workers of America, a union that serves over 25,000 news media workers across the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico.