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Writers Guild East Accuses NBC News of Undermining Union With Peacock Productions Shutdown

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By Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor The Writers Guild of America East is accusing NBC News of union-busting. The organization has filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board accusing NBCUniversal of undermining the union that was in place at the now shut-down Peacock Productions, an in-house non-fiction production unit.

WGAE wants the collective bargaining agreement that applied to Peacock Productions to remain in place at a new production operation NBC News unveiled earlier this year. “This cynical maneuver is intended to bust the union, to continue the company’s years-long effort to reject its employees’ decision to be part of the WGAE and to bargaining collectively on critical workplace issues,” said Lowell Peterson,

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