ITV Settlement: Employees Get Money, Bargaining To Resume
2/1/2016, Variety: A long-running labor dispute between ITV and the WGAE has resulted in a settlement that will enable the two sides to return to the bargaining table. ITV, which produces The First 48, agreed to settle a case brought against it by the National Labor Relations Board. The...
Ink Master Live Finale picketed by WGAE
NEW YORK, NY (OCTOBER 14, 2015) – The Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) led a picket and protest at the live finale of Spike TV’s INK MASTER, which is produced by Original Media, the nonfiction production company recently found to have violated federal labor law by failing to...
Victory at Leftfield!
Cementing the call to improve standards across the nonfiction/“reality” television industry, writer-producers at Leftfield Entertainment, the largest nonfiction production company on the East Coast, voted nearly two-to-one to unionize with the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE). Leftfield, which is owned by the UK-based media conglomerate ITV, created the...