NewsGuild reports this morning the following:
Unionized workers at Scholastic – the children’s publishing powerhouse – are walking out in protest of the billion-dollar company’s refusal to pay its workers fair wages, specifically its rejection of the Scholastic Union’s proposal for annual raises.
Members of Scholastic Union will not report to work Wednesday, Nov. 1 as part of the one-day stoppage and will instead rally via Zoom and then hold an in-person protest and picket starting at 1 p.m. outside Scholastic’s corporate headquarters at 130 Mercer St., New York City.
Members of the Scholastic Union, they say, have been working without a contract since last May and have been in bargaining since last October. Scholastic employees previously rallied in August in an attempt to get the company to budge on contract negotiations—evidently this hasn't been as moving as they'd have liked. They say the company is refusing to entertain a retroactive pay proposal that would counteract inflation, or to enshrine permanent remote-work policies that are now common at other publishers.