Vice Union Grows to Include TV, Digital UnitsAnother 200 Vice Media staffers are now covered in new union contracts.

[Collection]Hundreds of new Vice Media employees outside of its editorial division recently executed their first union contracts. Roughly 200 additional members of the company working for Viceland and Vice Digital, its TV and video operation, respectively, have bargained and ratified new union contracts under the Writers Guild of America East. While the 2016 contract for Vice editorial, its written news operation, was renewed, the additions to the contracts mean the Vice union now includes for the first time members of its nightly news programming, weekly documentaries and other non-fiction shows, as well as news video staff and an expansion of digital news  workers. “We are stronger together, and that strength is more needed now than ever before,” the Vice bargaining committee wrote in a joint statement. “There is power in a union, and we urge everyone — everywhere — to organize. Now is the time.” Indeed, as work in digital media is further marked by shifts in strategy and an investor squeeze for profitability, including at Vice, unexpected cuts to staff are becoming more common. A number of outlets over just the past year, from The New Yorker to most recently New York Magazine, have initiated union efforts. All cited as cause some

Follow WWD on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.

Read More...https://wwd.com/business-news/media/vice-union-grows-to-include-tv-digital-units-1202948234/