WITF-TV/FM PBS in negotiations with NABET-CWA, has proposed changes in the collective bargaining agreement that will immediately begin to undermine and dismantle the jobs of the union's members.
June 21, 2007 (Press Release) --
NABET/CWA LOCAL 213 - Harrisburg, PA
TURN-OFF WITF
WITF-TV/FM PBS in negotiations with the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians-Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO has proposed changes in the collective bargaining agreement that will immediately begin to undermine and dismantle the jobs of the union's members.
The Union believes that is exactly what Station Manager Kathleen Pavelko and Ron Kain of WITF-TV/FM want.
WITF-TV/FM Technicians, Engineers, Directors, Operators, Editors, represented by the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians-Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO and its Local #213, Harrisburg, are in labor negotiations that are riding a fine line of union-busting by WITF.
The collective bargaining agreement expired on June 15, 2007.
WITF presented the Union its last, best and final offer after only three days of negotiations.
NABET-CWA, AFL-CIO represents approximately twenty (12 full-time and 9 part-time employees) employees at WITF-TV/FM (who are highly trained, talented, professional television and radio workers who provide the local programs and news for WITF-TV/FM.
WITF is proposing changes to our collective agreement that would take away our remaining jurisdiction and give them the ability to eliminate all of our full-time workers. NABET-CWA, AFL-CIO represented workers care a great deal about WITF-TV, despite of managements’ concerted efforts to eliminate them.
Over the course of the last five years our wage increases were 2% per year. Since 1999, the President and CEO of WITF has given herself wage increases totaling over $120,000. Her salary and benefits, as of 2006, stands at $264,000.00, which is almost twice what Governor Rendell makes per year.
The station employs about 100 employees of whom 26 are managers.
The top five salaries in the building in 2006 totaled almost $1,000,000. This is outrageous for a non-profit organization that takes donor and taxpayer money.
The National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians-Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO is requesting support of other unions and the workers they represent. NABET–CWA, AFL-CIO asks that they join in the fight to keep jobs that are in jeopardy after twenty-eight (28) years of a labor contract between the parties at WITF-TV/FM.
If union pressure on WITF is not immediately successful, NABET-CWA, AFL-CIO will take our case to underwriters and politicians to remove underwriting and funding from their air, as well as ask the viewing public (thousands of whom are union members) to stop supporting a TV station that tries to build itself up while abusing and beating its workers down.
NABET-CWA, AFL-CIO Sector Representative Bill Murray
Staff Representative
NABET-CWA, AFL-CIO
Cell 202-316-8243
Joe Grazan
Local 213 President
NABET-CWA, AFL-CIO
NABET/CWA LOCAL 213 - Harrisburg, PA
TURN-OFF WITF
WITF-TV/FM PBS in negotiations with the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians-Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO has proposed changes in the collective bargaining agreement that will immediately begin to undermine and dismantle the jobs of the union's members.
The Union believes that is exactly what Station Manager Kathleen Pavelko and Ron Kain of WITF-TV/FM want.
WITF-TV/FM Technicians, Engineers, Directors, Operators, Editors, represented by the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians-Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO and its Local #213, Harrisburg, are in labor negotiations that are riding a fine line of union-busting by WITF.
The collective bargaining agreement expired on June 15, 2007.
WITF presented the Union its last, best and final offer after only three days of negotiations.
NABET-CWA, AFL-CIO represents approximately twenty (12 full-time and 9 part-time employees) employees at WITF-TV/FM (who are highly trained, talented, professional television and radio workers who provide the local programs and news for WITF-TV/FM.
WITF is proposing changes to our collective agreement that would take away our remaining jurisdiction and give them the ability to eliminate all of our full-time workers. NABET-CWA, AFL-CIO represented workers care a great deal about WITF-TV, despite of managements’ concerted efforts to eliminate them.
Over the course of the last five years our wage increases were 2% per year. Since 1999, the President and CEO of WITF has given herself wage increases totaling over $120,000. Her salary and benefits, as of 2006, stands at $264,000.00, which is almost twice what Governor Rendell makes per year.
The station employs about 100 employees of whom 26 are managers.
The top five salaries in the building in 2006 totaled almost $1,000,000. This is outrageous for a non-profit organization that takes donor and taxpayer money.
The National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians-Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO is requesting support of other unions and the workers they represent. NABET–CWA, AFL-CIO asks that they join in the fight to keep jobs that are in jeopardy after twenty-eight (28) years of a labor contract between the parties at WITF-TV/FM.
If union pressure on WITF is not immediately successful, NABET-CWA, AFL-CIO will take our case to underwriters and politicians to remove underwriting and funding from their air, as well as ask the viewing public (thousands of whom are union members) to stop supporting a TV station that tries to build itself up while abusing and beating its workers down.
NABET-CWA, AFL-CIO Sector Representative Bill Murray
Staff Representative
NABET-CWA, AFL-CIO
Cell 202-316-8243
Joe Grazan
Local 213 President
NABET-CWA, AFL-CIO
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