Writers Guild Says Right to Organize Hindered

By Richard Verrier

Feb. 2, 2006 12 AM PT

The Writers Guild of America, West, asked the National Labor Relations Board to file a complaint against most major broadcast networks and reality TV producers, accusing them of interfering with the right of employees to organize.

The guild alleges that networks including ABC and CBS and such producers as Rocket Science Laboratories and Next Entertainment Inc. attempted to intimidate writers and editors who had filed suits last year accusing the companies of denying them overtime and meal breaks.

Producers have disputed past allegations that they mistreated writers. A representative of the employers could not be reached for comment.

-- Richard Verrier

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Richard Verrier

Richard Verrier is investigations editor for Arts and Entertainment at the Los Angeles Times. He has been with The Times since 2001 and has run our Company Town since 2016. After stints at the St. Petersburg Times and the Orlando Sentinel in Florida, Verrier joined the paper as a reporter, and for many years covered all aspects of the entertainment industry before turning to editing. He oversees the Company Town coverage while working to guide and edit investigative and enterprise reporting across the entertainment team, collaborating with writers and editors from all departments. He is a native of Montreal and a graduate from the University of Toronto and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

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