WGA East members employed at CBSN have unanimously ratified their first contract – the first ever at a 24/7 live anchored digital streaming news network. Launched in 2014 as an arm of CBS News, CBS…
have unanimously ratified their first contract – the first ever at a 24/7 live anchored digital streaming news network. Launched in 2014 as an arm of CBS News, CBSN voluntarily recognized the union last year as the collective bargaining agent for its more than 65 writers, producers and graphic artists.
The new contract provides for across-the-board 3% annual pay raises, and what the guild calls “substantial improvements” in a wide range of economic and non-economic areas, including night shift differential, short turn-around pay, standby pay, and extra pay for long work weeks for all employees, as well as a series of upgrade payments for employees assigned to perform work ordinarily performed by people in higher-paid titles, extra paid days off, a system for getting paid for unused comp days,...
Canada Latest News, Canada Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
WGA Halts Face-to-Face Meetings As Coronavirus Outbreak Looms Over Upcoming Contract NegotiationsThe WGA this morning informed its membership that the upcoming membership meetings have been “cancelled as a precaution against COVID-19 (coronavirus),” I have learned. The leadership o…
Read more »
Padma Lakshmi’s ‘Taste the Nation’ Will Premiere on Hulu in JuneLast summer, Hulu first teased the news about a new TV series hosted by Padma Lakshmi, which the streaming service described as “a living cookbook…
Read more »
Union says engineers ratify, technical workers reject Boeing contract offersThe union that represents thousands of Boeing Co employees said late on Monday t...
Read more »
WGA Halts Face-to-Face Meetings As Coronavirus Outbreak Looms Over Upcoming Contract NegotiationsThe WGA this morning informed its membership that the upcoming membership meetings have been “cancelled as a precaution against COVID-19 (coronavirus),” I have learned. The leadership o…
Read more »
News agency: Iran VP, 2 Cabinet members have new virusTEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's senior vice president and two other Cabinet members have contracted the new coronavirus, a semiofficial news agency reported Wednesday as the death toll in the Islamic...
Read more »
I've seen 'Contagion' four times. No, the coronavirus outbreak isn't the sameThe 9-year-old movie has become one of the most popular rentals for video streaming services in 2020.
Read more »