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NBC News carried out a round of layoffs on Thursday, which caused a rapid reaction of union staff that says the action is illegal.
NBC Digital Newsguild and The Newsguild in New York vigorously condemned the announcement of management on Thursday, qualifying the measure as a clear contempt for workers’ rights, in a press release shared with Fox News Digital. Business Insider reported That NBC fired about 40 employees, while creating around 12 new jobs that cut workers could request as the division moves towards growth areas.
The union said that dismissing workers represented by Guild in the midst of negotiations for a first contract is illegal.
The union believes that layoffs are illegal according to Federal Labor Law. (False images)
“The NBC News address has demonstrated a total contempt for labor legislation and the demands of its unionized employees,” Carlin McCarthy, first vice president of NBC Guild and producer of the NB Story News Now segment with Tom flames Tom flames told Fox Digital . “We refuse to crowd ourselves to their insensitive behavior and morally in bankruptcy. We will fight and win a fair contract.”
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NBC Digital Newsguild represents almost 300 reporters, publishers, designers, videoperiodists, animators, social media strategists and editorial personnel, who have been negotiating their first contract since the group was unionized in 2019. Any change in the working conditions of the members of the members of the members During the negotiations, including layoffs, they must be negotiated from one place to another according to the Federal Labor Law, the union argues.
“NBC News executives live in a fantasy in which the federal law does not apply to them and the writing room simply turns without fighting,” said Tate James, editor of documentary videos and president of the unit. “It’s time to wake up.”
Failed negotiations resulted in 2024, union members left their work in the news media
The New York Newsguild has presented positions for unfair labor practices against NBC with respect to layoffs in 2023 and 2024. (False images)
The New York Newsguild has presented positions for unfair labor practices against NBC with respect to previous layoffs of layoffs that occurred in 2023 and 2024, says the press release. The charges are still pending before the National Board of Labor Relations.
“We are evaluating all the options and we hope that the NBC Directorate will negotiate in good faith these proposed layoffs as required by law,” said Susan Decarava, president of The Newsguild in New York.
Newsguild of New York, local 31003 of Communications Workers of America, is a union that represents almost 6,000 media professionals and other employees of news organizations from the New York area, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Thomson Reuters and propublic.
CNN also announced plans to fire 6% of its workforce this week. As a result, the long -awaited measure eliminated 200 jobs.
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