Are Hearst Magazines executives switching tactics in the ongoing union battle?
Hundreds of staffers across 24 brands, including Cosmopolitan and Esquire, revealed their intention to unionize in November with the Writers Guild of America, East, but only on Tuesday did executives, who are yet to voluntarily recognize their efforts, finally sit down with the organizing committee.
Instead, Hearst initially appeared to adopt a hard line, including setting up an anti-union web site. Eventually, relations between executives and the WGAE became so bad that the latter filed an unfair-labor-practice charge against the former with the National Labor Relations Board, which it is currently investigating.
For their part, committee members responded that the union’s agenda will be based on the priorities set by the workforce and will be the subject of its negotiations when it has a seat at the table with management. It also shared examples from contracts other unions have negotiated at other media outlets and made clear that it will all be working toward a contract that is beneficial to both the union and the company.
For now, the two sides are currently waiting for the NLRB, which gets to decide when an election happens since Hearst did not voluntarily recognize the union, to announce a date. Originally, the union had expected it to take place in January.
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