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Omaha Steve

(99,573 posts)
Mon Sep 15, 2014, 08:08 PM Sep 2014

NLRB orders CNN to rehire 100, compensate 200

Source: Politico

By HADAS GOLD

The National Labor Relations Board on Monday ordered CNN to rehire 100 workers and compensate 200 over a labor dispute that has dragged on for eleven years.

In 2003, CNN replaced a unionized subcontractor called Team Video Services that provided the network with audio and video technicians with an in-house nonunion work force in its Washington and New York bureaus. The NLRB found that CNN failed “to bargain with the union about the decision o terminate the subcontracts,” made “coercive statements” and implemented “a hiring plan designed to limit the number of discharged TVS employees…in order to avoid a successorship bargaining obligation.”

As a result, the NLRB ordered CNN to rehire about 100 workers and compensate 200 more employees who continued to work at the company without a union contract.

In a statement, National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians-Communications Workers of America President Jim Joyce said they're "grateful" for the decision.

FULL story at link.



Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/09/nlrb-orders-cnn-to-rehire-compensate-195524.html

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NLRB orders CNN to rehire 100, compensate 200 (Original Post) Omaha Steve Sep 2014 OP
GOOD!!!!!! calimary Sep 2014 #1
Really? Wow, what a concept! eom LittleGirl Sep 2014 #2
Ha! shenmue Sep 2014 #3
"Our Top Story Tonight..." rocktivity Sep 2014 #4
DUzy! tomm2thumbs Sep 2014 #6
Weird, the RW nuts in the comments to this story think that CNN is Obama friendly, to say the least, Dustlawyer Sep 2014 #5
Actually kinda sad about this :-( mrdmk Sep 2014 #7
Look on the bright side. candelista Sep 2014 #8
Yep -- eleven years' worth of back pay rocktivity Sep 2014 #9
Same reason the BP oil spill litigation is four and a half years in and they haven't finished Dustlawyer Sep 2014 #10

Dustlawyer

(10,495 posts)
5. Weird, the RW nuts in the comments to this story think that CNN is Obama friendly, to say the least,
Mon Sep 15, 2014, 11:31 PM
Sep 2014

and Obama betrayed them by this decision. They are gloating over this! At DU everyone is happy because they are a big part of the corrupt MSM and this ruling is proof of that.

mrdmk

(2,943 posts)
7. Actually kinda sad about this :-(
Tue Sep 16, 2014, 11:07 AM
Sep 2014

The question is, 'why did it take over ten years to correct this in the courts?'

Seemed like a slam-dunk case...

Dustlawyer

(10,495 posts)
10. Same reason the BP oil spill litigation is four and a half years in and they haven't finished
Tue Sep 16, 2014, 03:11 PM
Sep 2014

screwing all of the victims yet. The bribed the Plaintiffs Steering Committee (PSC) who were appointed by the Judge (his buddy's) with a 600 million "Common Benefit Fund" that the PSC gets only if the bull shit class action goes through to completion with the majority of the claimants agreeing to be in the class action. We opted our clients out of it only to have the Judge twice send letters to our clients to encourage them to opt in by filling out the form included with the letter and returned in the postage paid envelope. We were not even told of this or sent a copy of the letter. Now they won't agree that we properly opted our clients out of this one-sided piece of crap that is denying 75% of the claims submitted and paying a fraction of the actual losses. Out of 3,000 failed business claims they only paid 4 and denied the rest.

Our Justice system is just like D.C., totally corrupt!

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