“As Negotias Over Their First Union Contract Near The One-Year Mark, Workers at Malcolm Gladwell’s PodCast Company Are Sending A Clear Message: We Are Ready to Strike. The Bargaining Unit at Pushkin Industries, WHICH is Unionized with The Writers Guild of America East, Threaten A Potential Work Stoppage in”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
The Bargaining Unit at Pushkin Industries, WHICH is unionized with the writers Guild of America East, Threaten A Potential Work Stoppage in a Letter Delivered to Management on Frike. The Letter Calls for Raises for Union Members Who “TIGThened Their Belts with The Company Durying the Lean Years,” A “COMPETITIVE” compensation for works and a “reasonable” “We will not accept the any cba with these guarantees,” The Letter States. “We Are Prepared to Strike.”
The Hollywood Reporter have reaured out to pushkin Industries for comment.
Co-Founded In 2018 by Gladwell and Jacob Weisberg, Pushkin Industries Produces Popular PodCasts Like The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos, Revisionist History an Against the rules with Michael Lewis. The Company Has Also Worked on Audiobooks Including SO Many Steves: Afternoons with Steve Martin an Fiasco: The Battle for Boston. The Pushkin Union Consts of 11 Producers, Edites and Engineers.
Pushkin Industries Voluntarily Recognized the WGA East Union in the Fall of 2023, with Contract Negotias Beginning in March of the Following Year. The Company’s Workers Organized Following Several Rounds of Layoffs at Pushkin Industries Amid An Ad Sporting Slowdown that Particularly Impacted the Podcasting Industry.
The union refers to the Tese Past Cutbacks in Its Letter to Management, But Says That After AROUND TWO YEARS OF TURBULENCE, “We Have Come Through that Period Stronger Than.” The union adds, “Finally, we have begun to reinvest in the Future of Pushkin, Putting Money Towards New Staff and New Shows that Will Keep Our Shop at the Forefront of Audio.”
Current Sticking Points in the Contract Negotias Are Language Covering Intellectual Property and Wage Provisions, Accounting To The Union. Said wga east president lisa taquchi cullen in a statement, “Writers Guild Members at Pushin Are Ready to Reach a Fair and Equitable Contract With. Takes to get to an agroment that meets their reissonable Demands. ”
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