ABC, NABET Agree on New Four-Year Contract

Friday, January 11, 2008 -- ABC and the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians Sector of the Communications Workers of America today ratified a new four-year contract covering about 1,100 staff employees and several thousand daily hire employees represented by the union at the ABC Television Network and four ABC owned stations. The contract is effective January 12, 2008.

All eight NABET bargaining units at ABC ratified the contract. Earlier, both NABET's leadership and its negotiating team had unanimously recommended ratification.

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Jeffrey Ruthizer, Senior Vice President, ABC Labor Relations, and Lead Negotiator, commented: "We're pleased that NABET members from all eight of the union's bargaining units ratified these agreements and are now moving forward with ABC under this new four-year contract."

The NABET Master Agreement encompasses many Company employees at WABC-TV in New York, KABC-TV in Los Angeles, WLS-TV in Chicago and KGO-TV in San Francisco - and at the ABC Television Network in New York, Los Angeles and Washington, DC. NABET's representation of employees in certain job categories varies by location to include broadcast engineers, desk assistants, newswriters, plant maintenance staff, publicists, traffic coordinators and others.

Source: ABC