NABET-CWA and ABC-Disney Reach Tentative Agreement
Source: Broadcast Union News.
A tentative agreement has been reached with ABC-Disney on a new four year contract to replace the Master Agreement which expired on March 31, 2011. This contract offer is the result of a fifteen hour mediation session conducted on March 22, 2013 at the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. That mediation session was led by National FMCS Director George H. Cohen.
The new contract, when ratified, will cover approximately 2500 staff and daily hire employees working as broadcast technicians, telecommunications specialists, news writers, producers, desk assistants, publicists, and plant maintenance personnel at various Company Network and TV station operations in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington D.C. The contract includes ABC news and entertainment programs and ESPN sports broadcasts airing on ABC.
Nationally syndicated talk shows “Katie” and “Live with Kelly and Michael”, as well as the ESPN programs “Pardon the Interruption”, “Around the Horn”, and “Highly Questionable” are also covered by this agreement. Additionally, this new contract establishes NABET-CWA’s jurisdiction for ABC provided content for the newly launched “Fusion” cable news channel, a joint venture between ABC-Disney and Univision.
While complete details of the contract offer will be made available within the next few days, this package contains a number of improvements from ABC’s stated “Last, Best and Final” offer.
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