WGA pickets in East Hampton
The New Yorker writes up an odd little WGAe labor action taking place at the East Hampton studios of ‘It’s A Big, Big World’, a PBS show paying below-scale wages to a non-guild staff:
Last month, aggrieved members of the Writers Guild of America East set up a picket line outside Wainscott Studios, a television-production facility, where “It’s a Big, Big World,” a new PBS children’s show with a non-guild writing staff, is shooting. They brought with them a familiar labor mascot, a fifteen-foot-tall inflatable rat, on loan from the Musicians Local 802.
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