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.
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calimary
(81,440 posts)LittleGirl
(8,291 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)Take that, corporate empire.
rocktivity
(44,577 posts)Let's see how much coverage THIS gets from CNN, LOL!
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tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)Dustlawyer
(10,497 posts)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)The question is, 'why did it take over ten years to correct this in the courts?'
Seemed like a slam-dunk case...
candelista
(1,986 posts)Maybe with this precedent, the next case won't take 11 years.
rocktivity
(44,577 posts)times 200 employees is going to add up.
rocktivity
Dustlawyer
(10,497 posts)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!