NLRB orders CNN to rehire 100, compensate 200 [View all]
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.
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