{"id":196335,"date":"2023-11-20T17:01:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T22:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=196335"},"modified":"2023-11-20T17:01:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T22:01:28","slug":"drawn-quarterly-workers-gain-a-seat-at-the-table-with-new-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/drawn-quarterly-workers-gain-a-seat-at-the-table-with-new-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawn &amp; Quarterly workers gain &#8216;a seat at the table&#8217; with new union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The past few years have brought comics publisher <a href=\"https:\/\/drawnandquarterly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Drawn &amp; Quarterly<\/a> a string of accolades and a new children's bookstore. Now, the Mile End icon is in the news again \u2013 this time for a brand-new union.<\/p>\n<p>Booksellers and publishing staff announced last week that they've unionized with the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration du commerce of the Conf\u00e9d\u00e9ration des syndicats nationaux (FC-CSN). The union has just <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">been certified by the Administrative Labor Tribunal of Quebec.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bookseller Bridget Mountford says that unionization happened \"organic[ally],\"\u00a0not in response to any one issue, but a more general desire for \"a seat at the table\" on issues like advancement and compensation.<\/p>\n<p>\"It was something that we'd talk about in passing... We felt like, if we all want this, there doesn't need to be an inciting incident.\"<\/p>\n<p>So far, Mountford says management has been \"engaging in good faith.\" She's hopeful about what a union can add to a job she loves.<\/p>\n<p>\"A good company culture seems just as likely to produce a union as a bad company culture, because it allows for [staff] to have conversations about what their long-term commitment is to one another, and to the work they do.\"<\/p>\n<p>Drawn &amp; Quarterly did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the full interview below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past few years have brought comics publisher Drawn &amp; Quarterly a string of accolades and a new children&#8217;s bookstore. Now, the Mile End icon is in the news again \u2013 this time for a brand-new union. Booksellers and publishing staff announced last week that they&#8217;ve unionized with the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration du commerce of the Conf\u00e9d\u00e9ration&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":196337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,57],"tags":[33101,33100,29428,33097,2655,33098,32271,5467,33099],"radio":[28325],"origine":[274,1145,260],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196335"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196492,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196335\/revisions\/196492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196335"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=196335"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=196335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}