Oxford University Press makes two US teams redundant

The OUP United States Guild becomes part of the NewsGuild-Communications Employees of America. It states it has “submitted a grievance” in reaction to the redundancies insisting “that they breach the CBA’s jurisdiction short article, which secures historic union work from being relocated out of the unit, and the layoffs post”.

It included: “These are the people who make OUP’s award-winning covers and graphics, do intricate information work that maintains OUP’s digital products, and so far more. Together, they stand for almost two centuries of solution and dedication to OUP’s goal. They and their groups are irreplaceable.”.

Scott Morales, device chair of the OUP USA Guild, that was himself made redundant last April having actually worked at the OUP for 15 years, said this was the second round of redundancies in the last 6 months, including:” I stand in uniformity with those impacted by the discharges and will remain to lend my voice to promoting for their fair therapy.”.

Among those being made redundant are 13 participants of the OUP United States Guild, a union representing about 150 OUP staff members, simply three weeks after the union claimed it “validated a Collective Negotiating Arrangement (CBA)” with the UK-based academic author.

In a statement, the OUP U.S.A. Guild said: “Management has tried to validate these layoffs to our participants on the extremely dubious grounds that the US and UK teams are duplicative which the amount of work has actually been reduced, regardless of these teams’ heavy work (many of which have actually only raised since before the pandemic).”.

Oxford College Press (OUP) has made practically 20 members of its US office repetitive this week, including the totality of the North America Layout group and the US Content Transformation and Requirements group.

A speaker for the OUP told The Bookseller: “We are implementing modifications to our organization that regrettably influence a few of our group based in the US, some of which are Guild members. Like several organisations, we have to adapt just how we work to make sure that we are best-placed to accomplish our goal and future aspirations. We are happy to every one of those impacted for their payments and quality of their job over the years.”