Yesterday, workers at the University of Chicago Press announced a plan to unionize. As Publishers Weekly reported, the UCP Workers Guild would be the first union in the nonprofit publisher’s 130-year history. But they wouldn’t be lonely, in this timeline. For just last week, we got wind that workers at Hachette Book Group—one of the ultra-powerful “Big Five” publishing houses—have also moved to unionize. The week before that, a similar effort ad…
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