From November 10th 2022 to February 9th 2023, over 250 employees at HarperCollins took action against the monstrous corporation, which was paying its workers unliveable wages and refused to diversify their workforce. They were on union strike for 66 consecutive days, until finally arriving to a tentative agreement that the wages will be increased to minimum salaries, and also managed to gain diversity inititives which contribute to a far more equal workforce.

During this gruelling process for advocating for their basic rights, many of the workers were teetering between dread and anticipation for the outcome, desperatly hoping for some progress.

During the 66 days of strike, R.f Kuang, whom HarperCollins is heavily associated with, having published all 4 of her wildly sucsessful fantasy books with, decided that she too would go on strike with the people of HarperCollins.

This is in tandem with her recently published book 'Babel- An Arcane History', which as Kuang herself put it, is about 'the power of strikes and collective action' which is a major theme of Babel. It looks as though Kuang practiced what she preached, and joined the strike against the corperation that sustains herself and her career. She is obviously sucsessful enough to be able to do that and spread the word to those unaware, and that is brave of her and those 250 workers to stand up against what was so blatantly wrong and try and advance into a better life.

Kuang stated that 'HarperCollins wanted me to keep publishing books for them, but they should treat the folks who put my books on the shelves with dignity and respect. I think they will find that a lot of authors like me might be heading elsewhere'. 

Kuang stated that she will be moving corperations and is currently publishing with William Morrow & Co and no longer associates with HarperCollins.