#united workers of seven seas

[hoarder-of-danmei]

UW7S GOT THEIR UNION VOLUNTARILY RECOGNIZED 🎉

#tgcf #mdzs #svsss #2ha #mxtx #unions #united workers of seven seas #workers rights #my posts #caps cw #minors feel free to interact with this one singular post

[graphicpolicy]

United Workers of Seven Seas votes to ratify its first contract

United Workers of Seven Seas votes to ratify its first contract #comics #comicbooks #manga #unionstrong

It’s another win for labor as United Workers of Seven Seas (UW72) has voted and ratified its first contract. The union represents the workers of Seven Seas Entertainment. The publisher voluntarily recognized the staff union in June 2022 and the employee’s first intention to union was made in May 2022. Seven Seas Entertainment is the number one independent publisher of manga, danmei, and light…

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#featured #manga #seven seas entertainment #unions #united workers of seven seas

[luminouslumity]

I've shared all the other covers already, so here's SVSSS Vol. 3. That being said, even though a boycott hasn't been called, at least keep in mind what's going on.

#mo xiang tong xiu #mxtx #the scum villain's self-saving system #svsss #shen yuan #shen qingqiu #luo binghe #bingqiu #seven seas entertainment #seven seas danmei #united workers of seven seas

[bisexualbaker]

A little bit of good news for your dash

UW7S is happy to announce that Seven Seas has agreed to voluntarily recognize us as the union based on a majority card check. This decision by Seven Seas eliminates the need for an NLRB conducted election and will pave the way for a more expedited path to bargaining a first contract. At a time when many employers continue to fight the unionization of their employees, we appreciate that Seven Seas decided to respect the voices of the majority of staff and recognize us. We look forward to developing a mutually beneficial relationship and reaching a collective bargaining agreement in the near future.

Source. (Note: The image in the first tweet is the text above in its entirety.)

Congratulations to the United Workers of Seven Seas on becoming the first unionized manga and light novel publisher in North America! Isekai (another world) is possible!

#uw7s #united workers of seven seas #unions #workers rights #isekai is possible #yes good

[misscellophane-ao3]

Go show them some support if you can

#seven seas manga #seven seas #go manga #manga #gomanga #mxtx books #mxtx novels #cell posts #cell rambles #united workers of seven seas #(I know I am a little late to this but I just saw it bc I don't use twitter often)

[a-force-dyad-in-space]

Is there any information out there about how the negotiations went between United Workers of Seven Seas and Seven Seas Danmei? I know the union was recognized but we never got word about whether they got everything they asked for and their Twitter hasn't updated in over a month. 🤔 Just wondering whether negotiations went as smoothly as we hoped.

#of course it's possible that everything went well and that they don't feel the need to update anymore #but i do find the silence a little concerning #uw7s #seven seas danmei #united workers of seven seas

[livelaughloveluobinghe]

holy fuck?????

#united workers of seven seas #they doubled their earnings in a year and still didnt offer their employees any raises???

[smashpages]

Seven Seas agrees to recognize employee union

Manga publisher Seven Seas has agreed to recognize a proposed union for its employees. Both Seven Seas and United Workers of Seven Seas shared the news on social media.

Employees at Seven Seas revealed they were attempting to unionize back in May. Seven Seas initially rejected the idea, which would have required a union vote amongst its affected employees, but last week they had a change of heart.

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#Smash Pages #manga #seven seas #united workers of seven seas

[fostersffff]

A bright spot in a raging storm of bad news: Seven Seas is recognizing the union their employees formed, United Workers of Seven Seas! The last time I had heard about this, Seven Seas had hired a union busting firm, which was a ridiculously costly choice to make, considering the union had near unilateral support from the workers. As the statement says, choosing to voluntarily recognize the union means things should go much smoother from here on out, and hopefully the move will inspire other workers in the industry to attempt unionizing themselves.

Also since I keep seeing it come up in relation to this: if them fucking up that crossdressing manga or any other localization blunders have made you think they aren’t entitled to union benefits, kindly fall in a fucking hole. You can be mad about bad or unfaithful translations and criticize their work while also still wanting them to be treated well as employees. In fact, there’s a good chance that if working conditions improve, it’ll draw in better talent to work on these things and help retain what good talent they already have.

#Seven Seas #United Workers of Seven Seas #manga #translation #localization

[collapsedsquid]

The Saudi-led military coalition fighting against the Houthi movement in Yemen said on Monday it would close all air, land and sea ports to the Arabian Peninsula country to stem the flow of arms to the Houthis from Iran. The move, which follows the interception of a missile fired towards the Saudi capital Riyadh on Saturday, is likely to worsen a humanitarian crisis in Yemen that according to the United Nations has pushed some seven million people to the brink of famine and left nearly 900,000 infected with cholera. "The Coalition Forces Command decided to temporarily close all Yemeni air, sea and land ports," the coalition said in a statement on the Saudi state news agency SPA. It said aid workers and humanitarian supplies would continue to be able to access and exit Yemen. The United Nations, however, said it was not given approval for two scheduled humanitarian flights on Monday and was seeking clarification on the coalition's announcement.

Your freedom-of-navigation news from 2017

[hoarder-of-danmei]

Update on the situation with MXTX and 2ha’s English-language publisher:

#mxtx #tgcf #svsss #mdzs #2ha #unions #workers rights #seven seas #danmei #united workers of seven seas #uw7s #my posts #id in alt text

[graphicpolicy]

Seven Seas Voluntarily Recognizes its Staff's Union

Seven Seas Voluntarily Recognizes its Staff's Union #comics #comicbooks #manga #unionstrong

Seven Seas Entertainment has recognized the United Workers of Seven Seas (UW72), the union that will represent the publisher’s workers. That move means no election is necessary and negotiations can begin to come up with a contract. After it initially refused to waive the election, the publisher changed it mind and on June 25th tweeted: In order to protect everyone involved, and to work together…

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#comic books #Comics #featured #seven seas entertainment #unions #united workers of seven seas

[luminouslumity]

#mo xiang tong xiu #mxtx #the scum villain's self-saving system #svsss #mo dao zu shi #mdzs #tian guan ci fu #tgcf #danmei #seven seas #seven seas danmei #seven seas entertainment #united workers of seven seas

[wonderbitchin]

Support UW7S

In light of the recent announcement of the MDZS manhua getting an official translation (definitely being used to cover this up) I want to make sure the mxtx, meatbun and general danmei fandom over on tumblr are aware of what is happening with Seven Seas publishing

Workers for the manga and light novel publisher Seven Seas (@/gomanga on twitter), have developed a union, going by United Workers of the Seven Seas, or UW7S (@/_UW7S). Here is the official statement by UW7S on twitteras to why they are doing this

Link to tweet and mission statement on their website

A person who says they resigned from the manhua translation, says it was suggested they use a pen name but that 7Seas is now not allowing them to use it since they handed in their translation, with the editor-in-chief asking if they just don't want to be credited. The translators only recieve a flat rate, without any ongoing equity from the selling of the works, and I'm personally concerned with how much or how little is even going back to the author themselves

The most recent news is that 7SeasEntertainment will not voluntarily recognise UW7S

So what can you do? Well this is what UW7S has asked us to do

Follow them on Twitter (@/_UW7S)

Share their posts, and tag your own posts with @/_UW7S on Twitter to support

Tag @/gomanga on Twitter to express support for the union. Even send an email if you can

Use any combination of these hashtags:

MakingWaves

OurFlagMeansUnion

IsekaiIsPossible

Put the compass emoji in your display name or bio: 🧭

Download their media kit of Twitter icons and banners featuring their mascots, Nyacola and Bartolomeow, here

The union is NOT calling for a boycott at this time. Please continue to shop for your favorite manga, danmei, and light novels as you usually would!

I have cancelled my preorders, and explicitely stated that I am doing this because of their treatment of workers, I DID NOT MENTION THE UNION OR RECENT EVENTS. I will also not buying from them until they get their shit together

#mxtx #meatbun doesn't eat meat #erha #union #mdzs #tgcf #svsss #mo dao zu shi #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #mo xiang tong xiu #the scum villain's self saving system #ren zha fanpai zijiu xitong #heaven official's blessing #tian guan ci fu #the husky and his white cat shizun #erha he ta de bai mao shizun #wbt og

[mariacallous]

Do Arab leaders have Israel’s back? If one has scrolled through the social media commentary on the combined effort by Israeli, American, British, French, Jordanian, and possibly other Arab governments to thwart Iran’s missile and drone barrage on Israel, one might think so. A bevy of analysts, Israelis, and pro-Israel activists clearly want to believe it.

Alas, that claim is mostly hyperbole. Last weekend was many things, but the dawn of a “new Middle East,” marked by intensified Arab-Israeli cooperation at a renewed time of war, was not one of them. Fortunately, the truth is still reassuring enough.

Israel’s devastating military campaign in the Gaza Strip over the last six months has put significant pressure on its ties with Arab countries, especially Egypt and Jordan. Of the Arab states that have diplomatic relations with Israel, the Moroccan, Egyptian, and Emirati ambassadors remain in the country, though Abu Dhabi suspended its coordination of humanitarian aid with Israel after seven aid workers of the nonprofit World Central Kitchen were killed in an Israeli drone strike. Still, after all of the violence and diplomatic tension, it has become routine for journalists and analysts to ask whether the Abraham Accords, the diplomatic deal that normalized relations between Israel and several Gulf Arab states during the Trump administration, are now dead.

That’s one reason why the display last weekend of regional security coordination under the auspices of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) was so important. The other has to do with the United States itself. After more than a decade in which the American foreign-policy community sought to deemphasize, pivot away, and retrench from the Middle East, the Biden administration proved that Washington can be—separate from its confused approach to the war in Gaza—a source of security in the region.

But the conclusions should not be overstated. At the same time that Israel’s friends were high-fiving and the Israelis were publicly thanking the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Jordan, and regional powers for their help, Arab officials and analysts were working hard to temper all the talk about the new Middle East. Jordan’s King Abdullah II made clear that shooting down Iranian drones was a defense of their country’s airspace and that they would do the same if drones were launched in the other direction.

In a private conversation, one keen observer of the region and former Arab official relayed, “It comes down to how states perceive the legitimacy of military action. In the Red Sea, no one wanted to appear to be part of a maritime coalition that was seen to be defending Israel. Last night, countries shot down incoming projectiles because it can be portrayed as defending sovereign airspace and not wanting a regional war.”

Those are important arguments. Given the horrors of Gaza and the concomitant outrage of many Middle Easterners over the deaths of tens of thousands of innocents at the hands of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), there is not a single Arab leader willing to publicly align with Israel—much less secure it. Still, defending airspace and preventing an intensification of the ongoing regional conflict yields the same result: helping Israel.

Setting aside the cheerleading of recent days, the coordinated military operations that protected Israel from mass casualties and destruction highlight the durability of the Jordan-Israel and Egypt-Israel peace treaties as well as the 2020 normalization agreements. No doubt, relations between the Israeli and Jordanian governments have been under strain in recent years as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu focused attention on developing ties with the Gulf states and engaged in provocative policies in Jerusalem as well as the West Bank. This created political difficulties for Abdullah, threatening the delicate balance between the demands of Jordan’s majority Palestinian population, its active Islamist movement, and East Bank tribal leaders, alongside the strategic necessity of maintaining a profoundly unpopular relationship with Israel.

The king’s apparent determination to maintain ties to Israel—given their importance to Jordan-U.S. relations—included a security dialogue that remained important to Jordan’s leaders even as other aspects of the relationship with Israel weakened. This security cooperation intensified once Israel came under CENTCOM’s area of responsibility in September 2021. The Egyptians, for their part, do not seem to have played a discernible role in last weekend’s events, but they, too, have ensured that their security dialogue with Israel remains robust and mutually beneficial despite the many crises that have buffeted the bilateral relationship since 1979.

Critics will undoubtedly argue that these securitized relationships are nothing to cheer. The ties between Arab governments—whose legitimacy is compromised, in part because of their ties to the Israelis—and an Israeli state that has dispossessed and repressed Palestinians would not exist but for authoritarian leaders and the support they enjoy in Washington. But this does not negate the fact that the security dialogues that have been underway between these countries for years paid off on April 13.

The same basic argument holds for the Abraham Accords, under which security cooperation developed rapidly after years of informal and secret cooperation. There is no leader in the Gulf who trusts Netanyahu, and they recoil at what the IDF has wrought in Gaza, but the Emiratis, Bahrainis, and the Saudis (who are silent partners in the Abraham Accords) certainly dislike and fear Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps more. This underlines what everyone already knows about the accords and why supporters of the Palestinians are so angry about it: The Arab leaders who have normalized ties with Israel place more value on fending off the Iranian challenge than Palestinian statehood. Despite the absence of some Arab ambassadors in Israel throughout these months of shocking violence, none of the Arab states that have come to terms with Israel have completely broken ties. The Saudi government, for instance, publicly maintains that it remains committed to normalization, though officials in Riyadh say they will require serious progress toward a Palestinian state. Yet even after all the violence and bloodshed of innocents in Gaza, the very fact that the Saudis still want to move forward with the Israelis says a lot about where the Palestinian issue stands among Arab leaders’ priorities.

Finally, after more than two decades during which the American investment in the transformation of the Middle East returned little or nothing, last weekend’s coordinated effort to prevent a wider and more destructive regional war (and, yes, defend Israel) was the result of Washington’s leadership. The episode demonstrates that when American policymakers focus on preventing threats to regional stability and security—as opposed to leveraging the power at their disposal to remake societies—Washington can be successful. Sure, critics will argue that the United States has been destructive in enabling the IDF’s destruction of Gaza. That is a potent critique. Would these observers prefer an all-out war in the region? Some may, given their views on Israel, but U.S. policy dictates otherwise.

Last weekend, there was a lot of commentary on social media and elsewhere expressing amazement at a new Middle East in which countries of the region coordinated an effort to thwart Iran’s attack on Israel. There is something to be said for that. But what’s more amazing when one takes a step back is that war has not actually changed the region that much. Regional governments still hate and fear Iran, harbor no particular commitment to Palestinian justice, want good relations with Israel, and desire American leadership.

[yurimother]

'I'm in Love with the Villainess' Volume 5 Released in English Paperback

On Tuesday, Seven Seas Entertainment released the fifth and final volume in Inori’s Yuri isekai series, I’m in Love with the Villainess (Watashi no Oshi wa Akuyaku Reijou). Seven Seas had previously published the light novel digitally in July.

I’m in Love with the Villainess is a Yuri isekai series following Oohashi Rei, an ordinary office worker who awakens suddenly to find herself reincarnated as Rae Taylor, the protagonist from her favorite otome game. However, Rae has no interest in chasing any of the game’s original three romance options. She has eyes only for the main antagonist, the elite aristocrat Claire. Rae vows to stay at Claire’s side and protect her from the upcoming turmoil and strife of the revolution.

The fifth volume concludes the second of the series' two arcs, which began back in volume 3. The second arc continues the story and romance of Rae and Claire after they leave school and the kingdom is rocked by the revolution. The two women are now married and started a family together, adopting twin girls, May and Alea.

The publisher describes the fifth volume:

Rae and Claire saved the world for each other. Now they must fight to keep it. As they lead the united forces of their kingdom and its neighbors against the demon threat, they begin to uncover strange and unsettling secrets. The hidden truth of the world has devastating implications not only for the lives of everyone they hold dear, but their very selves. The thrilling conclusion of the second arc!

I'm in Love with the Villainess began as a web novel before being picked up for digital publication by GL bunko. Although initial Japanese sales were more limited, overseas translations and fans dramatically increased its popularity. I'm in Love with the Villainess has sold over 200,000 copies worldwide, has multiple adaptations, and received a Japanese physical release, subtitled "Revolution." featuring new artwork.

The series received praise from critics and audiences for its characters, story, world-building, and focus on social issues like socio-economic inequality and LGBTQ+ life, identity, and legal rights.

A manga adaptation of I'm in Love with the Villainess began serialization in Comic Yuri Hime in 2020. Aonoshimo illustrates it. GL Bunko is also publishing a spinoff series, She's So Cheeky for a Commoner (Heimin no Kuse ni Namaiki an!), which like the original series, began as a web novel. It retells the series's events from Claire's point of view.

Both adaptations are licensed by Seven Seas Entertainment, which will release the first volume of She's So Cheeky for a Common in February 2023, and the manga's fourth volume in January 2023.

Check out I'm in Love with the Villainess Volume 5 in paperback today: https://amzn.to/3EPEgSu

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