Editorial workers at Charlotte’s WFAE (90.7 FM) have officially formed a union with SAG-AFTRA less than a month after voting to do so.
The union is a first for a public radio station in the Carolinas, a SAG-AFTRA spokesperson said in a statement sent to Radio Ink in November. A neutral third-party verified that over 70% of WFAE’s content creators favored unionizing with SAG-AFTRA, the organization said on Friday.
The bargaining unit will comprise editorial staff at the station, including producers, on-air hosts, digital support workers and other content creators at WFAE.
“This union will be key to WFAE’s continued success,” a spokesperson for the employee organizing committee said. “Voluntary recognition ensures that we can begin the collective bargaining process as soon as possible to make our station stronger than ever.”
“This is a huge win for WFAE…
