Bargaining Updates

NBCU/Comcast

NABET-CWA negotiators have been working since January to secure a successor agreement to the contract with NBCUniversal/Comcast that expired on March 31, 2015. Approximately 2,700 full-time staff and daily hire members have been working under the terms of the expired contract for the past 16-weeks, ever since the Company declined the Union's offer to extend the terms of the contract.

The bargaining parties remain apart on key issues such as seniority/layoff provisions, travel pay, salary upgrades for certain positions and general wage increases. The bargaining unit includes camera, sound and video technicians who " Make Television Happen" for NBC News, NBC Sports, and NBC Entertainment, as well as editorial personnel who work in local television station newsrooms in New York, Washington DC, Chicago and Los Angeles.

Members are dissatisfied by the Company's denial to recognize issues important to the group, and tensions are playing out on the streets of New York and Chicago where the Union staged a number of informational protests and rallies.

NABET-CWA activists and Scabby the Rat rally outside of NBC Tower in Chicago.

Picketers tell management, "NBC is bad news for its workers."

FOX Television Stations

The news is not good for NABET-CWA members working at FOX Television Stations operations in Chicago, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. In each of these locations, contracts are open and negotiations are unresolved – in some cases for more than four (4) years. Members of NABET-CWA Local 54041 working at WFLD-TV in Chicago have not seen a contractual wage increase since April 1, 2010. In Los Angeles, the contract expired in June 2011, and the Company later declared an impasse and implemented a package of draconian contract changes. The group in Las Vegas is a new unit, organized two years ago, and they are still fighting to get a first contract. In each of these cases, the Company has presented drastically unrealistic bargaining demands designed to frustrate the negotiations process. One thing is certain: FOX has succeeded at completely frustrating its hard-working employees.