In August 2025, full-time workers at Graphic Audio, an award-winning company known around the world for its one-of-a-kind “movie-in-your-mind” experience, voted overwhelmingly to unionize with the Communications Workers of America. We did so in order to collaboratively create and maintain a workplace that recognizes the value and expertise each employee brings to our productions; to ensure that the quality of Graphic Audio’s dramatized adaptations remains high; and to guarantee that increasingly high-profile authors (and their fans) continue to trust us with their stories.

Since its founding 20 years ago, Graphic Audio management has demonstrated genuine care for and dedication to the needs of its employees. They have supported us as we adapt novels into an audio drama format, cast from our contract voice actor pool, direct those actors, narrate and act in productions ourselves, engineer recording sessions, edit together narration and dialogue, sound design and score multi-hour productions in a compressed time frame, and master the finished books to be ready for sale.

However, since its acquisition by RBMedia in 2020, Graphic Audio’s workforce, customer base, and scope and length of productions have rapidly expanded. This is not inherently a bad thing, but it has become increasingly clear to us that RBMedia does not care about the well-being of Graphic Audio employees, only about the potential profit that can come from our success.

We hope that RBMedia will recognize that investment in its workforce is the best business decision to make, and will bargain fairly with the Communication Workers of America as our collective bargaining representative.