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The editorial staff of NBC News Digital has voted 90-40 to join the NewsGuild of New York. The new bargaining unit includes reporters, video journalists, editors, social media strategists, designers and editorial staff from nbcnews.com, today.com, StayTuned, msnbc.com, and NBC News Now. "We are proud to officially…

Hollywood's guilds and the film and TV academies are asking members to take part a survey of gender and racial bias being conducted for the Anita Hill-led Commission on Eliminating Sexual Harassment and Advancing Equality in the Workplace. As first reported in Deadline, the survey is seeking to gauge the extent of…

Twenty-five “distraught” employees at CBS Television City have filed a discrimination lawsuit against the facility’s new owner and CBS Broadcasting, saying that they were “traded” after its sale and not offered buyout deals, unlike many of their colleagues. All of but one of the defendants have worked at CBS for at…

Stumbling from bad to worse, NBC now has a potential labor landmine under its feet with Gabrielle Union's forced-march exit from America's Got Talent. Just hours after the Comcast-owned network finally put out a statement that seemed to recognize the gravity of the situation and the allegations of racial and other disc…

2nd UPDATE, 3:48 PM: In a move reminiscent of its recent Supreme Court co-headlining appearance with Comcast, the Department of Justice today is seeking to speak at a pivotal upcoming hearing in the Writer Guild of America’s antitrust dust-up with WME, CAA and UTA. The Makan Delrahim-led antitrust unit of Donald Trump…

The American Federation of Musicians failed to achieve its main goal in its recently concluded negotiations for a new film and TV contract – winning residuals for musicians' work on episodic TV shows made for streaming services. Even so, the 80,000-member union says it will keep fighting for those payments when the…

UPDATED with comment from union president: The American Federation of Musicians has reached a tentative deal for a new film and TV contract with management's AMPTP. The new two-year deal still must be ratified by the union's members. "The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers and the American Federation…

The WGA has appointed the members to its negotiating committee in the run-up to its talks with management's Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers for a new film and TV contract. See the list below. The current pact expires on May 1. No date has been set for the talks to begin, and it's not clear whether…

Vivian Lien has been promoted to VP Labor Relations at the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers – the trade association that represents the major studios in their contract negotiations with Hollywood's labor unions. Lien joined the AMPTP in 2013 as counsel before being promoted to Senior Counsel in…

UPDATED with further staff departures: Deadspin, the formerly Gawker-owned sports-website that has become a case study in the management of digital news assets, saw its news flow go dry for nearly 24 hours as writer Drew Magary joined a mass editorial exodus on Thursday. By Friday morning, the entire staff was gone…

NBC News Digital is poised to join newsrooms across the country in being unionized by one of two unions vying to represent editorial staffs. The WGA East and the NewsGuild have made major inroads in recent years, organizing reporters and editors employed in a wide range of digital shops, major magazines and…

More than 75 writers on CBS and Showtime TV shows have signed a petition in support of a fair contract for their fellow writers employed on the newly unionized staff of CBSN, CBS News' streaming news network. The petition was delivered to management at ViacomCBS by WGA East executive director Lowell Peterson on the…