Steve Yount

As contract negotiations continue with Dow Jones, the IAPE union is announcing today that they have unionized the company's Harborside location, located in Jersey City, NJ.

For months, the IAPE has aggressively tried to gain a majority at the Jersey office, (at least according to the New York Post), where roughly 230 Dow Jones employees work.

UPDATE: A Dow Jones source writes in that the Jersey City office is not actually a Wall Street Journal operation, but part of Dow Jones Newswires. The Observer regrets the error.

--Michael Calderone Full memo after the jump  read more »

IAPE 1096, the union representing Wall Street Journal staff, responded to the Dow Jones memo outlining the company's new "strategy project" with a memo of its own. Full text after the jump.

Friends - on the heels of the outsourcing of 31 IAPE-represented employees today in South Brunswick comes the news that management will review the company's news operations, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron's and Dow Jones Newswires, with the intent of improving them.

However, management must take pains not to mistake attrition for efficiency, or sacrifice quality in the pursuit of cost savings.  read more »

Too often, efforts to improve the quality or scope of Dow Jones publications -- including the recent launch of the Journal's Weekend Edition and, before that, Personal Journal -- have instead left new ventures with fewer staff and resources than they need or were promised, and came with short-sighted cost cuts elsewhere in the enterprise....