If you haven’t heard, our union twitter announced some disappointing news this morning:
[Screenshot of post from United Workers of Seven Seas Twitter account: “Our employer, Seven Seas Entertainment (@gomanga) has hired the union-busting firm Ogletree Deakins.”]
It was disheartening enough to know that they’d opted not to voluntarily recognize us, but learning who had been hired to represent Seven Seas was, let’s say, the start of a bad weekend.
[Screenshot of post from United Workers of Seven Seas Twitter account: “It’s embarrassing that @gomanga would rather pay Joe Arpaio’s fave legal firm than recognize our union. There’s still time for leadership to reverse course and work w/ us in good faith to negotiate a contract for fair wages, industry-standard benefits, and freelancer protections.”]
In short, we wish a number of different choices had been made, but we will continue to hope that upper management chooses a new strategy in better faith.
In the meantime, please continue to support UW7S and other unions as we push for worker’s rights and strive to save our ship. We do this work for the books and we do it for readers, and we’d like to be able to do it for as long as possible.
I’m guessing a bunch of you have come from that United Workers of Seven Seas (UW7S) post. We appreciate all the solidarity we can get, especially as, as of yesterday (5/26/22) management has decided not to take the high road and voluntarily recognize us.
While we are sure we have the support to win an election (a full 30 of 41 eligible employees are publicly committed to our cause), it’s disappointing not to be acknowledged for the consensus we’ve already come to.
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I probably won’t be speaking much about my actual work at 7S, especially not without touching base with the union first, but I’m happy to answer questions re: editorial practice with translated work now and again.
I’m a little more at liberty to speak freely about my own work, such as with STAR WARS: RONIN (my queer little contribution to the Visions project) and THE ARCHIVE UNDYING (my queer little original debut abt funny-sad gays and equally funny-sad giant robots dragged screaming toward revolution). Though I won’t be around much while I’m drafting the sequel to the latter. Brain tired.
If you haven’t heard, our union twitter announced some disappointing news this morning:
[Screenshot of post from United Workers of Seven Seas Twitter account: “Our employer, Seven Seas Entertainment (@gomanga) has hired the union-busting firm Ogletree Deakins.”]
It was disheartening enough to know that they’d opted not to voluntarily recognize us, but learning who had been hired to represent Seven Seas was, let’s say, the start of a bad weekend.
[Screenshot of post from United Workers of Seven Seas Twitter account: “It’s embarrassing that @gomanga would rather pay Joe Arpaio’s fave legal firm than recognize our union. There’s still time for leadership to reverse course and work w/ us in good faith to negotiate a contract for fair wages, industry-standard benefits, and freelancer protections.”]
In short, we wish a number of different choices had been made, but we will continue to hope that upper management chooses a new strategy in better faith.
In the meantime, please continue to support UW7S and other unions as we push for worker’s rights and strive to save our ship. We do this work for the books and we do it for readers, and we’d like to be able to do it for as long as possible.
I’m guessing a bunch of you have come from that United Workers of Seven Seas (UW7S) post. We appreciate all the solidarity we can get, especially as, as of yesterday (5/26/22) management has decided not to take the high road and voluntarily recognize us.
While we are sure we have the support to win an election (a full 30 of 41 eligible employees are publicly committed to our cause), it’s disappointing not to be acknowledged for the consensus we’ve already come to.
–
I probably won’t be speaking much about my actual work at 7S, especially not without touching base with the union first, but I’m happy to answer questions re: editorial practice with translated work now and again.
I’m a little more at liberty to speak freely about my own work, such as with STAR WARS: RONIN (my queer little contribution to the Visions project) and THE ARCHIVE UNDYING (my queer little original debut abt funny-sad gays and equally funny-sad giant robots dragged screaming toward revolution). Though I won’t be around much while I’m drafting the sequel to the latter. Brain tired.
