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WGA East Pacts With 2 Reality Producers To Provide Health Insurance & Benefits

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday July 25, 2012 @ 9:24am PDTTags: Big Deals TV, Lion Television, WGAE

Lion Television and Optomen Productions have become the first non-fiction TV producers to offer writer-producers company-paid health benefits, paid time off, grievance and arbitration provisions, and compensation minimums, according to WGA East. The collective bargaining agreements come after WGAE landed Lion in May 2011 and Optomen in August 2011, and guild brass are calling them first-of-their-kind agreements for the reality industry. “We are very pleased to have reached agreement with Lion and Optomen,” WGAE executive director Lowell Peterson said in announcing the deal. “This is a part of the television industry that has historically been non-union, and these agreements demonstrate that people who join with the WGAE get, not just a community of creative professionals, but tangible improvements in their working conditions.” WGAE says it remains in negotiations with non-fiction TV producer Atlas Media after it voted to join up, and it will begin talks with a fourth, ITV Studios, when the National Labor Relations Board resolves an appeal.

Related: WGA Wants Contract Talks With ITV Studios After NLRB Judge Upholds Union Election

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Lion Television Employees Join WGA East

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday May 6, 2011 @ 9:47am PDTTags: Lion Television, Writers Guild Of America East

Lion Television, the production company behind Discovery’s Cash Cab, MTV’s Megadrive and PBS’ History Detectives and America Revealed, has agreed to recognize the WGA East as the collective bargaining rep for its writers, producers and researchers, a group of about … Read More »

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UPDATE: More To This Reality TV vs WGA: Lion TV’s Writers And Producers Join WGAE

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Wednesday January 26, 2011 @ 11:49am PSTTags: Labor Relations, Lion Television, TV, WGA, WGAE

UPDATE: Insiders are telling me that, contrary to this WGAE announcement (below), the WGA has not won this election — yet. One of my sources says, “Both sides are a long way from being in a position to legitimately claim a victory. A number of votes have … Read More »

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