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NBC Loses Union Fight

Huge NABET-CWA Victory Restores Union Rights to NBC ‘Content Producers’In a resounding victory for NABET-CWA, an NLRB (National Labor Reltations Board) ruling out of Region 2 in New York City orders NBC to reinstate the bargaining rights of “content producers,” a title the network created three years ago to strip union representation from nearly 100 photographers, editors and writers. “On behalf of our affected members and their families, we are extremely pleased with this outcome,” NABET-CWA President Jim Joyce said. “NBC wasted shameful amounts of money to pay for outside legal counsel

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CWA/NABET NEEDS FAIR CONTRACT NBC union workers three years without contract or raise from GE/ComcastIn 2009 and 2010, GE[1] posted record profits in their shareholder reports, yet GE not only paid no taxes to the US government, they got a $1.8 billion tax benefit in 2009 on $10.8 billion in profits and a $3.2 billion tax benefit in 2010 after posting $14.2 billion in profits. US taxpayers, including union workers, GAVE GE $5 billion in tax benefits over the last two years.[2] Comcast, in 2010, posted a net profit of $943 million.[3] In January, 2010, President Obama appointed Jeffrey

MSNBC’s Ed Schultz Defendant in Federal Lawsuit

Schultz Charged with Fraud and Anti-labor Practices by NBC Broadcast EngineerEd Schultz, host of MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” and self-proclaimed champion of labor unions and workers’ rights, is named in a federal lawsuit filed by his former partner and labor union official, Michael Queen of NBC. Schultz is accused of fraud, breach of contract and other charges stemming from efforts to bring his talents to television.          Mr. Queen, a broadcast engineer for NBC, first approached the late NBC Washington Bureau Chief Tim Russert with the idea of Schultz as a TV host. Queen then approached Mr.

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