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WGA Opposes Comcast/NBC Takeover of Time Warner

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In a February press release the Writers Guild of America, East, announced its opposition to the Comcast/NBCUniversal takeover of Time Warner, reiterating concerns over consolidation in both distribution and production portions of the media industry that it expressed in 2010 about Comcast’s takeover of NBCUniversal.

Comcast/NBCUniversal is currently thwarting efforts of writer-producers at NBCUniversal-owned Peacock Productions to collectively bargain for protection like minimum compensation rates, affordable health benefits, and paid time off. In 2012, when the writer-producers first filed for NLRB election the NBCU lawyers claimed half of them had no right to representation. In April 2013, NLRB ruled that all the employees had a right to representation, and a secret ballot election was held June 2013. Due to the power of the media conglomerates and legal maneuvering by their attorneys, the ballot box has not been yet counted.

“It would simply be wrong to give a giant corporation like Comcast/NBCUniversal even more clout in the marketplace, and in the workplace,” the statement reads.







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