Watch Promo Video for Industry-wide Lunch Action
Taking the Rights We Have, to Win the Rights We Deserve Watch the Promo Video for the April 12th Action Now! In what other industry is it unheard of to take lunch??? We’re calling on everyone in our industry to take a lunch break at 1:30pm tomorrow April 12th...
Seize the Lunch Hour!
Our movement to raise standards across the nonfiction television industry is strong and growing. We keep winning union elections, beating legal challenges, gaining benefits and more. We are making historic progress, and that means improvements are soon to come across the industry; the reasonable things we’re asking for like...
Unpaid Overtime? It Needs to Change!
Networks and production company executives are making millions, and our business is a very profitable one. Those profits are a result of our hard work and creative ideas. We must remember that those profits are also generated by increasing our workload and our hours worked while at the same...
Unite to Protect Our Future! – Nonfiction Mass Meeting
It’s more important than ever to join forces in a community that can create fair rates, secure health benefits, improve safety standards, create a work/life balance and protect all of our futures. New to the campaign? Discover what it’s all about. Have you been to a meeting before? Hear...
Workers at True Win Backpay for Wage Theft
Our campaign to raise industry-wide standards and improve working conditions won a big victory today. The Writers Guild of America, East is very pleased to announced True Entertainment has entered into a settlement with the New York Attorney General’s office that will require it to pay $411,000 in restitution...
Picket line at ITV Studios LA
Today, 50 people including Writers Guild of America, West and SAG-AFTRA members rallied at ITV Studios in LA to demand better pay and improving working conditions in Nonfiction television and Leftfield in particular. ITV owns Leftfield Entertainment, and this action is part of the recent escalation in the fight...
Action at A+E – Bringing the Fight to the Networks
Yesterday, despite the rain, over 65 TV freelancers and supporters picketed A&E headquarters in Manhattan. This spirited action is one of the largest, public actions in Nonfiction TV history. Press Clip People in the industry are no longer willing to accepting low pay, lack of adequate healthcare options, unsafe...
Victory at Peacock Productions
Producers and APs at NBCUniversal’s Peacock Productions have voted to join the Writers Guild! Crain’s Article on the Peacock Victory This is another major victory for the campaign to raise standards across the nonfiction TV industry. It’s been almost four years since Producers and APs officially filed for a...
AP-to-Producer Training Was A Success
In June, the AP to Producer training was put together by members of the Nonfiction TV organizing committee and established freelancers in the industry. There were over 50 freelancers in the industry in attendance. The Nonfiction TV organizing campaign aims to raise standards in the industry and a part...
Producers Gather to Demand Changes In Nonfiction Industry
4/6/16: Producers from across the New York nonfiction TV universe gathered tonight to endorse a campaign with five key demands of the nonfiction TV industry.