Yesterday, The Center for Fiction Union went public! Itโs not fiction folksโฆreal fact workers want voluntary recognition of their union and representation with @RWDSU! Read all about it in @PublishersWkly today: https://t.co/TrL8GrrZOs.
Congrats to Bloomington, IL @RWDSU booksellers and baristas, who ratified their first union contract on March 8, 2025! Customers, come on down to the Barnes & Noble Bloomington store to #ShopUnion and congratulate workers on their new contract!
Congrats to Bloomington @BNWorkers who voted to ratify their 1st union contract on Saturday! @sappelbaum: "The Barnes & Noble unionization effort continues to spread across the country, & workers this month have shown a fair contract is not only possible, it's well within reach."
Congrats to @bnuwsunion@RWDSU booksellers and baristas, who ratified their first union contract on March 5, 2025! Customers, come on down to the Barnes & Noble UWS store to #ShopUnion and congratulate workers on their new contract!
Congrats to Barnes & Noble Park Slope @RWDSU booksellers and baristas, who ratified their first union contract on March 4, 2025! Customers, come on down to the Park Slope store to #ShopUnion and congratulate workers on their new contract!
Congrats to @bnusqunion@RWDSU booksellers and baristas, who ratified their first union contract on March 3, 2025! Customers, come on down to the Union Square flagship store to #ShopUnion and congratulate workers on their new contract!
BREAKING: @BNWorkers have ratified historic, first-in-the-nation union contracts at three New York City Barnes & Noble stores! @sappelbaum said: โA union is the only way to ensure workplace protections are secure โ especially now, while laws protecting workers are under attack.โ
Through our union, retail workers are fighting for the right to sit at work!
@AP spoke to @reiunionchicago green vests and @BNWorkers about this workplace issue: https://t.co/KCoLZntp0M
Bear, a senior bookseller at NYC's Union Square Barnes & Noble helped form a union w/@RWDSU. He told us his union has made his workplace safer & more supportive because he & his coworkers know they can go to each other if issues arise. Watch the interview: https://t.co/ldNsBnPJ8W
Rallying outside Barnes & Noble by day, picketing outside The Strand by night: the bookstore labor movement is unstoppable! Fair contract now for our union siblings at Strand Bookstore! #1u โ๐ @RWDSU@UAW@UAWRegion9A
โToday is about sending a clear message to Barnes & Noble and the entire bookselling industry: the time has come for fair wages, benefits, and respect for the essential work that bookstore workers do,โ said Vincent Alvarez, New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO President.
And make sure to join our union siblings @UAWRegion9A Strand booksellers at their informational picket TONIGHT @ 6:30 PM! More info on IG: @/strandbooksellers
Today, booksellers from unionized Barnes & Noble, Strand, McNally Jackson, and Greenlight bookstores came together to demand a fair contract for @BNWorkers and @UAWRegion9A Strand workers! Together, we are fighting to raise the standard in this booming industry! #1u
Thanks to all the customers and labor supporters who came out to rally with us and to deliver letters of support to management! The holiday rush is almost upon us, and workers are demanding a strong first contract at Barnes & Noble NOW!