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Thursday, 23 July 2009

Workers demand a fair contract from NBC5

Members of the National Association of Broadcast Employees & Technicians (NABET) Local 41 rallied in front of the NBC5 studio on Michigan Avenue Wednesday to protest management's proposals in their ongoing contract talks.

The technicians and newswriters who bring you the NBC5 News have been working without a contract for the past four months.  NBC/Universal Managament has proposed a number of changes including converting existing union jobs into non-union jobs, preventing the union to participate in new work opportunities and emerging technologies, changing the seniority/layoff system and transferring existing union work to non-union shops in Atlanta and to CNBC.

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