Signal Ohio journalists in three cities walked out of their jobs for two hours on Tuesday to protest what they say are delays in negotiating with management and management's current insistence that each city be its own bargaining unit, instead of a single, unified group.

Since late August, roughly 14 full-time reporters—in Cleveland, Akron and Columbus—have pushed a union drive as a natural next step for the well-funded, three-year-old nonprofit journalism outlet. Signal has 35 employees total; 80 percent signed union cards.

Employees walked out at noon today after publicly chastising management for hiring Jackson Lewis, a law firm know for its aggressive anti-union tactics, to handle discussions instead of voluntarily recognzing the union.

The forming group, the Signal Ohio News Worker

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