WGAE Launches Harassment Helpline

By John Eggerton
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Will evaluate claims of discrimination

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The Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE), is providing a hotline for members who believe they are being discriminated against. 

The confidential Safe Workplace Helpline (1-212-767-7853 or safeworkplace@wgaeast.org) will put members in contact with a guild representative who will evaluate claims of discrimination or harassment.

WGAE executive director Lowell Peterson called the secure connection "part of the Guild’s expansive initiative to provide our 7,000 members with the tools, resources and education needed to work in a safe and tolerant environment." 

WGAE represents TV and film writers, including news media.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.