Law360 editorial staff walk out on strike

Editorial staff at the legal news website Law360 walked out on an unfair labor practice strike Tuesday morning following a year and a half of bargaining that failed to result in a contract. The workers, represented by the NewsGuild of New York, formed picket lines outside the Park Avenue office of Law360’s parent company, LexisNexis, at 9 a.m. 

The staffers’ last contract, the first for the workers since their union formed in 2016, expired in December 2022, and the union is seeking a successor contract that includes sizable raises and a hard cap on health care costs. The union is also hoping to resolve four unfair labor practice charges it’s filed against management. The complaints allege that the company has bargained in bad faith, unilaterally altered some workers’ benefit plans, illegally terminated one union member and refused to negotiate over planned layoffs.