Workers At ‘Summer Of Soul’ Producer RadicalMedia Organize With WGA East
deadline.comWorkers in the nonfiction entertainment division of RadicalMedia are seeking representation from the Writers Guild of America East.
The guild revealed the organizing effort in a memo Wednesday, with an “overwhelming majority” of the 65-member bargaining unit in support.
The WGAE also called for voluntary recognition from management at RadicalMedia, which has produced documentaries including Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich, What Happened, Miss Simone?
and Hollywood Black. The decision to organize “reflects our collective commitment to fostering a collaborative, equitable, and respectful work environment that aligns with RadicalMedia’s core values and aspirations: using storytelling in radical new ways to create a more fair and equitable world,” the newly formed union’s members wrote in an open letter on Wednesday.
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