Workers at A+E Factual Studios, the nonfiction television production arm of A&E Global Media, voted overwhelmingly to unionize with the Writers Guild of America East at a National Labor Relations Board election on June 10th. With the NLRB reporting 84 percent yes votes, the WGAE will officially represent these freelance creative professionals for the purpose of collective bargaining.
A+E Factual Studios, co-owned by Disney and Hearst, produces popular series such as “Dance Moms: A New Era,” “The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard,” “History's Greatest Mysteries,” and “Cold Case Files.”