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EXCLUSIVE: The unit astatine Futuro Media Group is calling connected guidance to voluntarily admit their desire to shape pinch nan Writers Guild of America East.
In a missive obtained by Deadline connected Tuesday, nan 15-member bargaining portion down nan Pulitzer Prize- and Peabody Award-winning podcast, radio, video, and integer media sum astatine Futuro wrote that they felt nan determination to unionize only expanded their committedness to “telling stories pinch heart, producing award-winning journalism, and creating stories that inform, entertain, and resonate pinch our audiences.”
“We judge successful Futuro’s ngo and spot our union as a measurement to help make nan institution much collaborative, equitable, and transparent – making it an illustration for our industry,” nan missive continued.
In summation to voluntary recognition, nan Futuro national is asking guidance to concurrently work together to a basal national statement containing industry-standard provisions including conscionable origin and a adjacent disciplinary process, codified wages and benefits, and different modular protections to sphere an equitable workplace.
Among nan much circumstantial demands are clear and adjacent disciplinary and termination policies, equitable salary crossed roles and acquisition levels, standardized occupation titles that bespeak responsibilities pinch clear processes for promotion, ensuring that immoderate important description of responsibilities aliases workload is accompanied by appropriate compensation and support, and worker input successful institution decision-making.
“We’ve seen nan publicity manufacture shaken and straight attacked. The suffering of our peers is palpable. While Futuro hasn’t remained unscathed, it has rebuilt and continued to survive. As a union we spot the monumental effort of this, and we don’t want nan process of unionizing to return much resources than needed distant from our important work,” nan missive read. “That is why in good will, we are presenting an initial collective statement that covers only basal labor protections. Our extremity is to execute national nickname and a national statement astatine nan aforesaid time, to minimize nan costs and clip that much extended bargaining mightiness incur.”
It continues: “Leadership has told america that we’re integral successful fulfilling nan ngo of Futuro: telling stories of our communities from a humane and nuanced perspective. We’re deeply invested successful this and done collective bargaining, we dream to grant and enshrine those values successful our culture, communities and contracts. As a non-profit and 1 of nan past remaining independent audio companies successful nan industry, we besides judge we person a peculiar opportunity to demonstrate leadership for our peers and show really this process tin make Futuro stronger and much competitive.”
Futuro Media was founded successful 2010 by Maria Hinojosa. The group produces nan Peabody Award-winning Latino USA power program. Other caller projects see nan Pulitzer Prize-winning podcast Suave, and critically acclaimed podcasts La Brega, Anything for Selena and Loud: The History of Reggaeton.
In summation to Futuro, nan WGA East represents Online Media members astatine Bustle Digital Group, Civic News Group, Committee to Protect Journalists, Fast Company & Inc., Financial Times Specialists, Future PLC, Gizmodo Media USA, HuffPost, Jalopnik at Static Media, Hearst Magazines, Inc., Jewish Currents, NowThis, Onion Inc., Salon, Slate, Talking Points Memo, The Intercept, The Root, Vox Media and VICE.
