The Council is implementing an organizing committee composed of members from all covered work sectors and increasing the Guild's organizing budget. It's also suggesting the addition of new vice president positions.
Moreover, the Council announced that it has approved an organizing resolution that calls for an organizing committee composed of members across work sectors that will work with staff on future campaigns. The resolution also entails an increase to the Guild’s organizing budget “to aggressively grow the Guild equitably across all sectors.”
“The WGAE Council has spent the last several months working together and with an outside facilitator. I think I speak for everyone involved when I say that it has been a learning process in which everyone exchanged ideas and listened to one another,” WGA East president Michael Winship said in a statement. “Now we have united. I’m enthusiastic about the result and the next chapter for this brave union of storytellers.
Council member Gail Lee, who works in broadcast, shared in a statement that “Reaching agreement on these changes wasn’t easy.” Nonetheless, she said, “I am proud of everyone’s willingness on Council to have the difficult but necessary conversations.
The Guild’s elected Council and membership has been engaged in an internal debate over the union’s changing composition following aggressive organizing in the digital news space for some time. In the summer of 2021, the Guild Council
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