In an update to a story we’ve previously reported on, more than 600 workers at Hachette Book Group voted in a decisive victory to unionize with the Washington-Baltimore News Guild. The newly certified Hachette Workers Coalition will now begin negotiating its first collective bargaining agreement with the company.
Hachette workers are now the largest union in trade publishing history and the second of the Big Five trade publishers in the United States to unionize.
“This is the culmination of years of hard work by employees who came together to fight for better working conditions for ourselves and the publishing industry as a whole,” said Brenna Haney, a metadata associate in digital sales. “We withstood months of anti-union campaigning from the company, and today, we march forward united, ready to bargain for better benefits, stronger protections, and increased equity, transparency, and agency in our workplace.”
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