Dave McNary Film Reporter@Variety_DMcNary September 19, 2017 | 05:11PM PT Beau Willimon, the playwright and showrunner who launched Netflix’s “House of Cards,” has been elected to a two-year term as president of the Writers Guild of America East, following an unopposed campaign to succeed Michael Winship. The results were announced Tuesday evening in New York. […]

by David Robb  February 14, 2017 2:55pm MTV News has become the latest digital news outlet to recognize the WGA East as the collective bargaining representative of its editorial staff. The guild has been on an organizing roll during the last 18 months, winning the right to represent the editorial staffs at the Huffington Post, […]

  Dave McNary Film Reporter @Variety_DMcNary 0 January 30, 2017 | 11:14AM PT The editorial staff at the Huffington Post has ratified its first collective bargaining agreement in a near unanimous vote. The employees are represented by the Writers Guild of America East, which has made a major push to unionize digital media news staffs […]

  Dave McNary Film Reporter@Variety_DMcNary Courtesy of Fusion October 6, 2016 | 05:19PM PT Employees at the online news outlet Fusion have launched an organizing drive to unionize with the Writers Guild of America East — with management vowing to oppose those efforts. The organizing committee announced in an open letter to staff that a […]

February 11, 2016 | 02:00PM PT Dave McNary Film Reporter@Variety_DMcNary Eight years after a bitter writers’ strike over new media, the Writers Guild of America is quietly preparing for a new set of negotiations that could start before the end of the year — though no date has yet been set. This story first appeared […]