IHeartMedia Podcasters Are Latest Media Staff to Launch Union
- Hosts, writers, producers seek voluntary recognition
- Writers Guild says it has secured overwhelming support
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Podcast workers at IHeartMedia Inc. are unveiling a unionization campaign they say has secured majority support, extending a recent wave of organizing in the convulsive media industry.
The vast majority of employees in a proposed bargaining unit of around 125 producers, researchers, writers, editors, and hosts have signed up with the Writers Guild of America East, according to the union, which is asking the company to voluntarily recognize and negotiate with the group.