Yesterday, employees represented by the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild indicated plans to reach out to Cascade Public Media donors.
We hold our relationship with donors in special trust — and have policies and procedures in place to safeguard donors’ personal and confidential information. We are investigating how that information was obtained and to see if any policies have been violated. No credit card or financial account information was compromised.
As we’ve previously shared, Cascade Public Media has been a good faith bargaining partner with our newsroom staff from the beginning. We’ve supported each member’s right to vote, and certainly have not stood in the way of any unionization efforts. We’ve followed the letter and spirit of NLRB guidelines at every step, and recognized the union as soon as their vote was held. We remain engaged in active and on-going negotiations, with the next bargaining sessions scheduled this and next week.