On the picket line
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Independent bookstore workers join union Workers at Shelf Life Books, an independent bookstore in the Carytown neighborhood of Richmond,Virginia, are committed to providing an alternative to Amazon. After the store changed owners in 2021, the workers began to realize that a union would give them

Athena Palmer, a Shelf Life Books worker, stated: “Indie bookstores can be vulnerable, with the rise of Amazon and dropshipping and everything that takes business away from us. The more voice we have in the store, the more successful it is, and we’ve seen that time and time again. We want the store to be here in 10, 15, 20 years and we felt having a union would lend itself to that success.” (richmondbizsense.com March 20)

If you are in the Richmond area, stop by to congratulate the workers, pet the two cats and buy some books.

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Headquartered in Irving, Texas, Nexstar Media Group, Inc. is the largest local broadcast television group in the United States. In 1997, Nexstar acquired WJET-TV for $18.5 million.

Now, all three of Erie’s largest newsrooms are unionized. WICU-TV/WSEE-TV on-air employees belong to SAG-AFTRA and Erie Times-News workers belong to the Erie News Guild.

SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland said:

“WJET employees who provide news and information to the community should be partners in the decision-making process that goes into carrying out that mission. Unionizing gives them the tools they need to make that happen, and we are delighted to welcome them into the ever-growing family of media station employees who have chosen to join SAG-AFTRA.” (Erie Times-News March 14)