Vice Nearing Deal with Guild to Unionize Digital Writers

Re/code: Vice Media and the Writer’s Guild of America, East announced that the two sides had reached a tentative agreement on a contract. WGA East said the contract is expected to be formalized in a vote early this week. The Vice deal will only affect writers on the digital side of things, which is about 70 people. Vice writers negotiated a 29 percent pay increase over three years, health insurance benefits, guaranteed severance pay and “a commitment to meet on a monthly basis to discuss workplace issues.”