Teachers’ Union Presidents Call on Scholastic to Settle with Newspaper Guild

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Weingarten (AFT) and Mulgrew (UFT) Demand Fairness for Scholastic Writers and Workers

New York – The Newspaper Guild of New York released today letters from Randi Weingarten, the President of the American Federation of Teachers, and Michael Mulgrew, President of the United Federation of Teachers, calling on Scholastic Inc. to reach a fair settlement in its long-running dispute with the Guild, which represents the employees who produce Scholastic’s educational materials that are popular purchases for millions of American teachers.

“I am disappointed to learn that Scholastic is refusing to bargain with its employees,” wrote Randi Weingarten in her letter to Scholastic CEO Richard Robinson. “As President of the American Federation of Teachers, representing 1.5 million educators and professionals throughout the United States, I appreciate Scholastic’s reputation as a developer of quality instructional materials…. Scholastic’s disrespectful and mean-spirited behavior toward your employees over the past two years seems out of character and counter-productive.”

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About the Newspaper Guild of New York

The Guild, Local 31003 of the Communications Workers of America, represents 2,800 employees at New York area-based media organizations, as well as the staff of the Writers Guild of America, East, retail workers at Hudson News in Manhattan and English teachers at New York’s Kaplan International Colleges. www.nyguild.org.