Conde Nast Is Now An All-Union Company

by Ray Schultz , September 11, 2022

More than 500 Condé Nast staffers were recognized as union workers on Friday after months of discussions. Every Condé Nast publication is now union, according to the NewsGuild.

The Condé Nast Union now covers full- and part-time editorial, video and production workers at Allure, Architectural Digest, Bon Appétit, Condé Nast Traveler, Epicurious, Glamour, GQ, Self, Teen Vogue, them., Vanity Fair, Vogue and Condé Nast Entertainment.

The union also covers over 100 subcontracted employees who work for a third-party staffing agency.

"After productive conversations with the NewsGuild over the past few months, we have agreed to voluntarily recognize four new editorial and business units," said a Condé Nast spokesperson. "We’re looking forward to working together on our collective bargaining agreements following successful contracts with The New Yorker, Ars Technica and Pitchfork unions and the pending contract with WIRED."

According to the NewsGuild, The New Yorker union, representing copy editors and fact checkers, but not staff writers, was formed in June 2018. Newsroom employees at Pitchfork and Ars Technica unionized in March 2019, and those at Wired in April 2020.

Condé employees had claimed they face a “lack of job security, low and stagnant wages, lack of career growth opportunities, unacceptable company-wide return-to-office policies, and the pervasive use of subcontracting as core organizing priorities,” the union states.

The four new editorial and business bargaining units are:

US Digital Video Production, Programming and Development
Editorial Brands and Centers of Excellence
Commerce
Audience Development and Social

magazines, personnel, publishing

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