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Friday, July 09, 2004

Putting the screws to Channel 3

Maybe this explains why I saw one of my favorite weekend morning anchor/weekday reporters, Sarah Barr, on satellite the other day, stuck reporting for the morning show on a weekday:

"AFTRA spurs NLRB case" at Yahoo! News/Variety
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After a complaint by AFTRA, the National Labor Relations Board has agreed to charge WFSB-TV in Hartford, Conn., with violations of federal labor law.
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The American Federation of Television & Radio Artists, which reps anchors and reporters at the station, has accused the station of interrogating employees, threatening the loss of future earnings, withholding raises and pay, illegally imposing new contract terms and conditions, informing employees they were not covered by the union contracts and discouraging employees from joining the union.
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-- Variety's Dave McNary

The case goes to court in Hartford September 26, 2004. I guess this means I can never work for a Meredith station again. (That means you, KPTV and KPDX.

I hope to God the Hartford Courant and Hartford Advocate have a field day with it. (The Courant and I think the Advocate are both owned by Tribune, which also owns Fox 61/WTIC-TV and Connecticut's WB 20/WTXX-TV. God only knows if Fox 61 or Connecticut's WB are non-union or not.

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