Both University of Chicago Press and Hachette Book Group have voted to unionize.

At presses tiny and large, it’s different large week for the labor question successful publishing.

As of this afternoon, the University of Chicago Press Workers Guild (UCPWG) has won their national election, with a bulk of the group’s 134 members voting to go a portion of the Chicago News Guild.

In this decisive victory, 89% of workers voted successful favour of national representation. Which should make the conditions for the archetypal national successful the press’s 130-year history.

But wait, it gets better! (And however often bash you get to work that, these days?) This effort is portion of a nationwide labour question that’s presently gunning for the publishing industry—and gaining immense wins. For conscionable yesterday, employees astatine the Hachette Book Group also voted (388 to 130) to unionize with the Washington-Baltimore News Guild.

This triumph is historical for its size. According to Publishers Weekly, the Hachette Workers Coalition—i.e., the org down the national drive— speaks for “600 union-eligible distant and NYC-based staff,” making it the largest union successful commercialized publishing history.

So what comes adjacent for our intrepid employees? Elections and declaration negotiations.

As Publishers Weekly reports, the Hachette Workers Coalition (HWC) volition soon “elect enactment and hole to negociate its archetypal corporate bargaining agreement.” For each the excitement, this could beryllium an uphill battle. Especially considering that absorption has mounted a beardown anti-union run truthful far.

Though determination is besides hard enactment to travel successful Chicago, for present the prima shines conscionable arsenic bright. Meredith Nini, elder promotions manager astatine the University of Chicago Press, enthused astir the adjacent signifier successful a nationalist statement.

“I’m immensely arrogant of my chap workers for their hard enactment and dedication to winning this election,” Nini told reporters. “These predetermination results amusement that Press workers are bound unneurotic with a communal mission. We look guardant to bargaining for a declaration that ensures a sustainable and equitable workplace for years to come.”

Big property oregon small, we permission the workers with 2 words: solidarity forever!

But successful the meantime, you tin work much astir the UCPWG ngo here. And the Hachette Workers Coalition here.