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Bargaining Update: NABET-CWA/NBC and Verizon

23 Jul, 2015

Breaking! NABET-CWA Reaches Tentative Contract at NBC Universal

The NABET-CWA Network Negotiating Committee reached a tentative agreement with NBC Universal for a new master agreement, following numerous bargaining sessions in New York and Los Angeles over the past several months. The tentative contract covers all NABET-CWA members at NBC, including some 2,700 staff and daily hire employees working as broadcast technicians in the studios and in the field for NBC News, NBC Sports and NBC Entertainment. It also covers building maintenance, air conditioning and plant maintenance personnel, staging services personnel, and couriers at network and TV station operations in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Washington D.C.

Verizon: This Saturday Will Be Huge!

Expect a sea of red outside VZ headquarters as thousands of CWA and IBEW members from Massachusetts to Virginia rally in New York City this Saturday. We'll tell Verizon that "we will do whatever it takes for a fair contract" as the Aug. 1 contract expiration date nears.

Throughout Districts 1 and 2-13, members have been mobilizing to make sure management gets it: we want good jobs, and customers deserve a network that works, as well as state-of-the-art fiber optic FiOS.