500+ Authors Sign Letter Supporting HarperCollins Union’s Strike

About 250 HarperCollins employees person been connected onslaught for much than a period (it began November 10th), warring for amended pay, national protections, and diverseness initiatives. An unfastened missive of enactment for the employees striking has reached 8,500 signatures according to the union, but a abstracted missive was signed by implicit 500 authors, some ones represented by HarperCollins and writers who are associated with different publishers.

Some of the authors who signed see Barbara Kingsolver, Jacqueline Woodson, and Kwame Alexander. The authors who are published done HarperCollins expressed that they consciousness that HarperCollins’s refusal to negociate successful bully religion has wounded their sales: “We explicit heavy interest astir the semipermanent interaction connected our books and careers if the onslaught continues…Your refusal to scope an statement with the national hurts us, your creators.”

They besides authorities that they volition not beryllium submitting caller books to HarperCollins until the onslaught ends. More than 150 literate agents person made this aforesaid promise. The missive states, “We basal with the radical who mold and champion our enactment and inquire that they beryllium compensated justly and reasonably for their labor. Our anticipation is that HarperCollins volition not beryllium satisfied with gathering an manufacture modular that is acold excessively debased to clasp apical talent.”

The starting wage for editors astatine HarperCollins is $45,000, which is beneath the living wage successful New York City adjacent for idiosyncratic with nary dependents.

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Here’s however to support the HarperCollins national during their strike.

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