Major League Baseball’s Content Department is Unionizing—Joining Writer’s Guild
Major League Baseball’s content department is unionizing. A group of 126 workers inside the commissioner’s office at Major League Baseball has unionized. They will join the Writer’s Guild of America East. In what seems to be an unprecedented move, MLB content producers will join the Writers Guild, the first time workers of a professional sports league have formed a WGA bargaining unit.
Baseball labor reporter, Jen Ramos-Eisen broke the news about MLB’s content department. She reveals,
“Major League Baseball’s content department, made up of employees producing and creating content for the league, have voted to unionize with WGA East, the union and MLB announced in a joint statement Wednesday.
A majority of the 126-member bargaining unit signed union cards, which led to MLB Advanced Media and WGA East to reach an agreement for an independent election to certify upon recognition, according to the statement.”
A reporter at MLB, who is part of the bargaining unit, told Left On Base:
“Given the uncertainty around the future of Major League Baseball and the impending lockout, unionization felt like a necessary step towards ensuring the rights of workers were protected in all departments, whether they’re full-time, part-time or seasonal. This will ensure more guardrails and certainty both in the short- and long-term.”
Regarding this unionization, Tom Fontana, President of the Writers Guild of America East says,
“The Guild is excited to welcome more workers from the sports industry into the labor movement,” Tom Fontana, President of the Writers Guild of America East, said. “The official MLB website and app produces quality content for baseball fans around the world, and this bargaining unit now has earned a seat at the table with Major League Baseball to negotiate a fair first union contract.”
Major League Baseball’s Content Department is Unionizing—Joining Writer’s Guild
Major League Baseball’s department produces content in three languages: English, Spanish, and Japanese. There have been concerns regarding Ai usage. But now there will be more job protections in place.
On Wednesday, MLB said in the statement, “Immediately upon being informed by the WGAE of their efforts to organize our Content staff, MLB worked cooperatively and in good faith to identify the appropriate bargaining unit and to respect the rights of the affected employees to decide whether to unionize. We look forward to working with the WGAE as their new representative.”
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