Skyhorse Fails to Unionize
An attempt to unionize employees at Skyhorse Publishing failed, with 18 workers voting to join the United Auto Workers Local 2110, and 28 voting against. Twenty-three more votes were submitted but deemed ineligible. The drive to unionize has been ongoing for months, with copyeditor Terry Buck leading the effort in hopes that joining the union would improve employee compensation and offer better job security. Skyhorse president Tony Lyons said, “Skyhorse Publishing is pleased that our employees have decided against representation by a union. We look forward to continuing our mission of providing readers with the highest quality books we can find.” The Skyhorse Publishing Workers Union, created to organize the effort, says they may hold another vote in the future, and that the attempt to unionize influenced management anyway: “The good news is the union effort has achieved several of the changes employees wanted to see.”
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