WGAE Newswriters Meet With Congressional Leaders

Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) newswriters had their voices heard this week in two separate meetings with key Congressional leaders. Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (IL) and Congressman Eliot Engel (NY) met with WGAE members and staff to discuss news quality, the working conditions inside newsrooms, and issues involved in the stalled contact negotiations with CBS and ABC.

Congresswoman Schakowsky, who is House Democrat Chief Deputy Whip and a member of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, toured the WBBM-TV newsroom in Chicago on Tuesday to speak with WGAE newswriters who have been working without a contract for more than two years at the CBS station.