Liberal New Media’s Biggest Challenge: Unionization

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[davikkm]

Liberal digital media companies are threatened by the policies they support, as a growing wave of leftist blog writers resorting to unionization threatens these companies’ survival. The Writers Guild of America East organized Gawker as its first unionized digital media outlet in June 2015. Although Gawker was bankrupt in less than a year later, for unrelated reasons.

Since then, the WGA has been able to unionize a growing stable of liberal digital sites including the Huffington Post, VICE, The Root, ThinkProgress, Fusion, Salon and Gizmodo Media Group.

So far this year, the WGA has unionized workers at MTV News, Group Nine, and the Thrillist. In addition, The Intercept’s 32-member investigative journalist staff voted to join last week.

The 4,500-member Writers Guild of America East and 20,000 brothers and sisters of the Los Angeles-based Writers Guild of America West dominated the writers who create television and films for the major media conglomerates for 50 years/ But now the digital space has captured over 25 percent of all advertising revenue.

[davikkm]

The Left is going to get a taste of their own medicine.

[gr8eman]

They always do! I just hope the decline of what’s left of their corrupt media is swift.

[Popman]

Union dues go to only liberal political organizations so you should not hear one complaint...

[WKUHilltopper]

LOL!! You’re good and enlightened enough to tout how wonderful it is? Now eat it. Eat it good.

[meyer]

I think that’s their second biggest challenge. Their biggest challenge is reality.

[minnesota_bound]

Interesting stories about a pair of writers working in the industry from the 1970’s on.

77 chapters of writers getting screwed over.
MY HOLLYWOOD MISADVENTURES
http://allangcole.blogspot.com

Sample on how a Universal exec negotiates:
http://allangcole.blogspot.com/2011/08/curse-of-black-tower.html

More:
http://allangcole.blogspot.com/2011/09/meatballs-in-space-larson-futterman.html
Godfrey said, “So, you’re learning firsthand what I’ve been telling you all along. In this town, writers are like a chick you meet at a bar when you are half in the bag and horny.” He lit a cigarette. Blew two perfect smoke rings, then said. “At first they seem terribly important to you. You need their words in the worst way. But then after you collect the script and wake up the next morning, you wonder what the %$#@! you were ever thinking of and kick them out of bed.”