How Hearst's effort to modernize its antiquated magazine business stressed out employees and led them to unionize
Employees complain of opaque pay processesMany Hearst employees saw a scattershot approach to promotions and raises at the company, and saw unionizing as the answer.
Brett Williams, an editor at Men's Health and member of the union's organizing committee, heard about the 2018 pay freeze, but that he still saw people getting hired and promoted. Recent upheaval at Hearst didn't help. Legacy companies like Hearst have struggled to catch up to faster-moving digital competitors while preserving their declining but still sizeable print businesses. To jumpstart its digital business, Hearst Magazines brought in a hard-charging digital media executive, Troy Young, in 2013.
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