Staffers at Pop-Up Magazine Productions, parent company of The California Sunday Magazine and the touring "live magazine" show Pop-Up Magazine, are forming a union, and they appear to have their employer's support in doing so. An announcement issued on Monday says employees will be organizing with NewsGuild, which represents similar bargaining units at The Daily Beast, Fortune, New York magazine, The New Yorker and Wired, among other publications. Seeking better job security, guaranteed fair compensation, increased diversity, transparency and "clear pathways for career development," the Pop-Up/California Sunday Guild is calling on both management and parent company Emerson Collective, which acquired Pop-Up Magazine Productions in 2018, to voluntarily recognize the unit so that "an amicable collective-bargaining process" can proceed. In a statement emailed to Folio:, Doug McGray, editor-in-chief of both Pop-Up and California Sunday, signaled support for the union drive, albeit with some conditions. "We’re so grateful for our coworkers at Pop-Up Magazine and California Sunday and have no objection if they want to form or join a union, so long as the decision represents a majority of our colleagues in an appropriate group," McGray tells Folio:. Organizers said the announcement comes after about a year of planning, but that the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic made the need to unionize all the more pressing given the cloud of uncertainty that's been cast over the media... Continue reading at 'Folio Magazine'
[ Folio Magazine | 2020-05-12 11:52:17 UTC ]