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The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 163: Nato Green & The Parallels Between Union Organizing and Stand Up

May 10, 2023

As we’re getting into the thick of this latest Writers’ Strike, we got the perfect guest in one of the world’s only comedian/union negotiators with the one and only, amazing Nato Green.

Green has simultaneously been a long-standing and highly effective union organizer/negotiator and an equally shrewd and clever comedian based out of SF/Bay Area. This week’s TCB Field Report goes into Green’s notable work at the negotiating table and on stage and how the two are intertwined as well as his expert analysis on this current and very necessary WGA Strike.

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Gimlet Media Becomes First Podcast Network to Unionize at Writers Guild of America

March 13, 2019

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gimlet media, podcasts, unions

Gimlet Media Becomes First Podcast Network to Unionize at Writers Guild of America

Though Gimlet isn’t primarily known as a comedy podcast network, their unionization could be groundbreaking for the entire world of podcasting, which comedy dominates in (if they pull this off and don’t upset their owners at Spotify).

The Onion also unionized at the end of 2018 after so many other digital outlets went under or got absorbed into their larger media companies.

Potentially, this could mean that places like Earwolf, Headgum, Forever Dog, Starburns Audio, and All Things Comedy could unionize in the not so distant future and podcasting can be even further legitimatized than it already is (imagine getting benefits for podcasting?), but we will probably just have to wait and see how Gimlet fares here.