(NEW YORK CITY) - More than 600 Union-eligible Employees at the Hachette Book Group (HBG), the third-largest Trade Publisher in the U.S., Workers have voted 388-to-130 to Unionize with the Washington-Baltimore News Guild.

The newly-certified Hachette Workers Coalition (HWC) will now begin negotiating its first Collective Bargaining Agreement with the company.

With Workers represented across every HBG Office and remote location, HWC is the largest Union in Trade Publishing history and makes Hachette the second of the Big Five Publishers to Unionize.

Brenna Haney, a Metadata Associate in Hachette’s Digital Sales Department, said: “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. We withstood months of Anti-Union campaigning from the company and we march forward united, ready to bargain for better benefits, stronger protections and increased equity, transparency and agency in our workplace.”

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