It looks like picketing may not be allowed at this year’s New Yorker Festival.
The magazine’s union and Condé Nast management have reached a new interim three-year agreement, the company’s human resources department announced to employees on Monday. “This renewal embodies many of the policies and practices that make Condé Nast and The New Yorker great places to work and support our award-winning journalism,” Stan Duncan, Condé Nast’s chief human resources officer, said in a message. .
Details of the agreement were not immediately clear, but Duncan’s message said the agreement addresses issues of health care, family leave, paid leave, diversity and career development. The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to the New Yorker Union for comment.
Mr Duncan added: “I would like to thank the negotiating team for their hard work and efforts over the past few months in reaching an agreement on these terms.” We look forward to the ratification of the contract. ”
The company’s message comes more than a week after the New Yorkers union threatened to strike ahead of the magazine’s annual festival, scheduled for Oct. 25-27. At the time, unions advocated flexible policies. He criticized the work that The New Yorker’s staff could do outside the magazine, arguing that management had asked for “too broad and extremely invasive restrictions.” After more than six months of negotiations, the two sides also reached an impasse over general wage increases, salary floors and severance protections.
“I remember in the initial negotiations that it was a direct, collaborative effort that actually got us the strong terms that we were looking for this time,” said Associate Poetry Editor and New Yorker Union unit Commission Chair Hannah Eisenman told THR at the time.
The New Yorker’s union of about 100 people includes roles such as fact checkers, article editors and photo editors. (The magazine’s staff writers are not included in the union.) The union announced that the original contract originally expired on March 31st, and its terms would expire on July 28th.