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August 16, 2024:
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Crooked Media Workers Union is celebrating ratifying a contract agreement, including wage increases and AI protection. They had walked out last week. Provisions include starting salaries of $80,000 and a minimum of 49 days of paid time off. “Crooked must include an acknowledgment that the staff is unionized with the Writers Guild of America East at the end of all podcasts.”
June 25, 2024:
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The iHeart Podcast Union, part of the Writers Guild of America East, has ratified its first union contract. “This contract has immediately improved the lives of many of our members and we believe it will continue to improve our lives and working conditions.” The package includes pay increases and better staff benefits.
November 17, 2023:
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Employees at Pushkin Industries have unionised through the Writers Guild of America East.
May 4, 2023:
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What does the Writers Guild of America strike mean for podcasts? Nick Quah reports it appears to impact independent fiction podcasts the most.
May 2, 2023:
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The Writers Guild of America is on strike, which may impact some podcasts.
June 30, 2022:
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The Writers Guild of America East's Audio Alliance, which aims to represent writers of scripted podcasts, is running a Town Hall meeting tonight from 8pm Eastern.
April 20, 2022:
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Parcast has ratified its first union contract with the Writers Guild of America, East, meaning payrises for all employees as well as diversity commitments. They reached the agreement after staff threatened to strike.
December 10, 2021:
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At iHeartRadio, podcast producers, editors, researchers, writers and hosts are unionising with the Writers Guild of America, East. The iHeart Podcast Union was launched yesterday; the website contains many concerns about working conditions. Saying that they "have been encouraged to embrace the dynamism of start-up culture without any of the associated benefits", the union says "iHeartMedia's overall compensation and benefits standards are wholly insufficient when compared to the greater podcast and scripted audio market". The union has support from around 70% of employees, we're told. The union hopes that iHeart will voluntarily recognise it; it's the latest unionising activity in the podcast space after Gimlet, Parcast, The Ringer, and others.
April 9, 2021:
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The writers and producers at Spotify's Gimlet Media and Spotify's The Ringer, two of the first podcast production companies to unionize with the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE), both ratified their first collective bargaining agreements. The agreements mean, among other things, increases for salary minimums and a limit to the use of contractors; and should set a template for others.