Take Action: Fair Contract for Union Writers at Hearst

Writers Guild of America East members at Hearst Magazines are bargaining for a fair union contract, and they need your support to secure an agreement by Friday, February 13.

The current agreement expired on January 31, and after more than a month of bargaining and a strike pledge signed by 85% of the bargaining unit, members are still fighting for a deal that reflects the value of their work. The union's contract proposals are reasonable, fair, and necessary for Hearst to be a sustainable place to work. They include eliminating geographic wage differences, ensuring every unit member’s annual raise outpaces inflation, providing remote-work flexibility, and protecting employees from the reckless implementation of AI. Unfortunately, the company has responded by failing to provide adequate bargaining dates and offering unacceptable counterproposals.

So far, Hearst management has proposed lower raises than members received in their last contract, increased in-office expectations without any guarantees of flexibility, and offered absolutely no protections against AI. Not only is their refusal to regulate AI properly a bad business practice, it is also dangerous.

Union members at Hearst deserve a contract that justly addresses member concerns regarding the current state of the economy, the ever-changing landscape of print and digital media, the layoff process, and other issues that they’ve deemed crucial to their continued success in the workplace. Please take a moment to send a letter to Hearst Magazines executives urging them to agree to a fair contract by Friday, February 13!