White Rye News Today

The last time the HarperCollins union went on strike was in the 1970s, bolstered, like today, by a moment of broader political unrest and collective action. At that time, the strike lasted for seventeen days, and word on the street is the company found it within them to agree to a fair contract then. There was another vote to strike in the 1980s, around the time News Corp purchased Harper & Row, but key votes were flipped at the last minute, and the company brought in corporate raiders and s...