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CBSN Ratifies WGA East Contract, a First at Live-Streaming News Services

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The Writers Guild of America East has negotiated a first collective bargaining agreement with CBSN, the first anchored live-streaming news service to be unionized, the union said Wednesday.

The new agreement was unanimously ratified by the more than 65 writers, producers, and graphic artists in the Guild-represented bargaining unit.

The agreement provides across-the-board pay increases of three percent per year and a wide range of other improvements involving overtime, long work weeks, sick days and the like, as well as a commitment to diversity and clarification of job titles and descriptions. “CBSN represents the future of live news, and we are very pleased to have negotiated an excellent contract,” said WGAE executive director Lowell.

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