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One-day strike by HarperCollins employees in the US


on Jul 20, 2022
Strike

More than 250 HarperCollins employees in the design, editorial, marketing, PR, and sales divisions are currently working without a contract and are represented by UAW Local 2110, a union for technical, office, and professional workers. Beginning in December of the previous year, the union started bargaining with management for better compensation, better family leave benefits, a greater commitment to staff diversity, and stronger union protection.

Laura Harshberger, a senior production editor for children's books and the union's chairman, stated, "We seek an agreement with HarperCollins that will create a more accessible, egalitarian, and just workplace." "The corporation refuses to agree to a fair contract for the employees who make it so successful," we are required by our members to go on strike.

According to Harshberger, more than 2000 people have signed a petition among members of the publishing sector in support of the union, which claims that HarperCollins is in a position to raise compensation after years of record earnings.

Following a vote by the same workers earlier this month to authorise a strike should the publisher refuse to offer a fair contract, the strike has already taken place.

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