WGA East Preps for First Election After Overhaul of Membership Structure into Film/TV, Online Media and News Sectors
variety.comJennifer Maas TV Business Writer Amid an ongoing strike, the Writers Guild of America East begins voting today on its new council members, including the successor for longtime president Michael Winship.
With the strike environment generating solidarity across the WGAE and its WGA West counterpart, it would seem that the election would be a straightforward affair with WGAE members on the same page about what they want from their guild.
However, this election comes not much more than a year after the guild reached a compromise to address the WGA East’s rapid growth in recent years by creating three “work sectors” for membership: Film/TV/Streaming, Broadcast/Cable/Streaming News and Online Media.
These changes came after a significant amount of internal conflict stemming from the WGAE’s success in organizing writers at digital media outlets such as Vice Media, Vox, Bustle Digital Group and many more.
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