*WORKERS UNION IN PUBLICATIONS, BOOKSTORES, PHOTO COPY CENTERS, STATIONERY,
DIGITAL DEVICES OF ATTICA (ATHENS – GREECE)*
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USA: 200 HarperCollins employees went on strike
The Workers’ Union in Publications, Bookstores, Photo copy centres,
Stationary, Digital Devices of Attica (Athens – Greece) sends a message of
solidarity to the 200 employees of HarperCollins – the publishing house
owned by Rupert Murdoch’s Newscorp – who went on strike on Wednesday 20
July. The workers are demanding higher pay, improvements to vested rights
(in family leave benefits, etc.), but also a commitment from the publisher
for diversity policies with regards to its staff (affirmative action in
gender, ethnicity, colour) and stronger union protection.
Negotiations between the union Local 2110 of the UAW, which represents over
250 HarperCollins employees in the design, editorial legal, marketing,
publicity, and sales departments, and company management for a new
collective bargaining agreement began in December 2021. These negotiations
began when the one-year extension (due to the Covid – 19 pandemic) of the
existing collective agreement expired. So far, these negotiations have not
led to an agreement as the company remains too far removed from the
workers’ demands.
Union members at HarperCollins held a vote and decided by 99.5% to go on
strike.
Thousands of people in the publishing industry sided with the HarperCollins
workers by putting their signatures on a petition to the company, urging it
to compromise on a fair collective bargaining agreement.
In Greece, too, workers are fighting against employer attacks, fighting for
wage increases, for collective agreements and the establishment of labour
rights, for the protection of the right to trade unionism. The attacks of
the employers and the Greek governments resulted in the abolition in 2013
of the Collective Labour Agreement in the Book and Publishing Sector, which
was first signed in 2004 and which every year guaranteed small improvements
(wages and social security) for the workers of the Book and Publishing
Sector.
*We stand with our colleagues at HarperCollins and their union (UAW LOCAL
2110 – Union for Technical Office & Professional Workers). We send them a
warm fraternal greeting.*
*The victory of labour struggles in one country is a victory for workers
around the world. *
*Send messages of support to the union email: Local2110@???
<Local2110@???>*
*10/8/2022*
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