> Our main demands are a $50,000 minimum salary, diversity and inclusion language written into our contract . . .

What language specifically?

Maybe they want to address the problem of the disproportionately low percentages of men who work in publishing?

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Are management in the union?

Not at HC

Not anywhere, that’s pretty much completely against the purpose of the union

Why would I want to help?

Solidarity is for all workers.

>Here’s how to help

As written by an HC employee.

Is that what Prism Reports is? A portal for disgruntled workers to publish their screeds?

This definitely happens in other countries. The French have the French Confederation of Management

No it definitely is not. Especially if youre a municipal employee.

I think they mean managers are in a different union than the workers. Do the French put both in the same union?

An example would be how teachers have a teachers union and principals have their own

This is the worst strike ever. The signs and chanting are generic. Why wouldn't you have what you're striking for and who you're from on the signs?

> by returning to a “union shop” system—meaning union contribution responsibilities are shared across all employees hired into union-eligible positions regardless of membership status

So forcing non-Union members to pay towards the union? Fuck that.

municipal employees should also be unionized. workers support workers everywhere.

This is a prime example of how ignorant reddit is. Municipal employees are unionized in most places in the US. And those unions, depending how old, can sometimes be absolute garbage at serving its members.

Ye precisely, managers need to act in the interest of the company which may be (usually are) different than interest of the worker

True, but worker solidarity is something this sub is not a big fan of.

AFAIK the building they're striking in front of is mostly empty. It's near World Trade and most folks on that street will be tourist taking pictures of the Oculus, and the only people hearing them are probably folks living in the one residential building there.

So pissed off residents sick of listening to the generic chants, and tourists who couldn't give a shit, alongside the 6 employees who actually work from the building.

Whats the point exactly?

I'm also not 100% familiar with the context, but afaik they had a strike last summer and did have a contract. They're just no longer happy with it after 6 months. From an employer's point of view, there's no incentives to give in to the strike since they could give them what they want and then they come back in 6 months with the exact same arguments.

I think unions are a good thing (for most cases. There are exceptions), and fully support strikes, especially for professions that don't have much leverage otherwise, but this one was poorly thought up.

I'm curious how many positions are union-eligible. HC is fairly large, and the amount of employees in that union are a very small percentage, but I'm not sure how many people they potentially cover.

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I thought we hated the police union here lol

Yeah, a system like that shouldn't even be legal. Hopefully the publisher can hold out

Blind solidarity is probably the cause of a bunch of our problems

You have much more in common in your economic needs with the striking workers at HarperCollins than you do with their executives and board members. That's what solidarity is about. All workers deserve good, living wages and working conditions, whether they're working a desk job, operating printing presses, or "just" flipping burgers or collecting trash.

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Very on brand for r/nyc