More than 400 union employees at 29 Hearst Magazine publications including Cosmopolitan, Elle, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar and Good Housekeeping are ready to hit the picket lines if the Writers Guild of America East and the company fail to agree on a “fair contract” renewal by Friday, Feb. 13.
The WGAE Council said it authorized a strike for the 410-member Hearst Magazines unit should “management fail to reach a fair contract” on Friday, the last scheduled day of bargaining. The union has engaged in more than two months of negotiations with Hearst Magazine, during which the guild agreed to continue talks past the previous contract’s Jan. 31, 2026, expiration date.
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