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HarperCollins workers ratify contract

After more than 3 months on strike, they win a $50k wage floor, other benefits

BY DUNCAN FREEMAN
Posted 2/24/23

Book editors, sales associates, designers, marketers and other workers at the publishing giant HarperCollins were to return to their office in lower Manhattan Tuesday with a new contract that includes nearly everything the workers demanded when they walked out on strike more than three months ago. 

The two sides entered mediation in January and reached a tentative agreement on Feb. 9, which the roughly 200 striking workers ratified last week in a vote of 178 to 12. 

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