Hachette Book Group Employees Win Union Election
Source: Publishers Weekly
By Sam Spratford | Jul 07, 2026
The majority of employees at Hachette Book Group have voted 388 to 130 to unionize with the Washington-Baltimore News Guild, Local 32035, the union announced today.
The Hachette Workers Coalition (HWC) will soon elect leadership and prepare to negotiate its first collective bargaining agreement, per the release. Encompassing 600 union-eligible remote and NYC-based staff, the HWC is the largest union in trade publishing history.
“This is the culmination of years of hard work by employees who came together to fight for better working conditions for ourselves and the publishing industry as a whole,” said Brenna Haney, digital sales and metadata associate at HBG, in a statement. The HWC launched in late April and was preceded by internal organizing efforts beginning in 2022, according to employees.
HBG now joins HarperCollins Publishers in the ranks of unionized Big Five publishers. In an internal message to staff shared with PW, HBG CEO David Shelley wrote that he was approaching “this new era with hope and in good faith.”
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