Posted on 01/11/2020 7:11:46 PM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
CNN will pay $76 million in back pay to a group of former video contractors whose contract was terminated in 2003, according to a settlement signed Friday.
The money, which will go to more than 300 former contractors, is the largest monetary remedy in the history of the NLRB and is more money than the board typically collects in an entire year, according to its news release.
The workers were represented by two union locals of the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians-Communications Workers of America when CNN terminated the contract. The news channel then hired nonunion employees to do the same work, according to the NLRB.
“CNN sought to operate as a nonunion workplace and conveyed to the workers that their prior employment with (Team Video Services) and union affiliation disqualified them from employment,” the NLRB said.
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I hope Sandmann’s settlement was greater than that.
Wow....CNN starting to sound like Wells Fargo.
Funny how liberals/progressives don’t want to deal with unions...
17 again! Q was involved in this!
CNN broadcasts in 58 airports in the US. With the two settlements that means each airport will have to pay CNN at least 2 more million a year. What, CNN pays the airports?
How many of them are dead today ?
Soros will pay it for CNN.
Their debt to savings ratio isn’t looking so good. And now here comes Devin Nunes.
The way things are going, they may want to change their initials to ATM.
Actually, you are correct.
If not Soros, then the ironic global socialist, multi-million acre land owner tycoon himself, Ted Turner.
He has paid billions to build and keep left wing propaganda, and left-wing projects alive, including to the Soviets, to try and pad anti-American propaganda efforts in the late 70’s and 80’s, and to UN for abortion efforts when anti-abortion presidents have cut off funding for a bit.
It is sickening there are so many anti-American left-wing billionaires, who made it big in the “free market”, but who are willing to pay out money for propaganda, and left-wing causes, to shut everyone else out, and cancel our liberty.
I hope Sandmann’s settlement was greater than that.
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2003 was also the same year Nicholas Sandmann was born. This lawsuit has happened during Sandmann’s entire lifetime.
All these settled & upcoming lawsuits can’t be looking too good on Jeff Zucker’s performance review.
“Q was involved in this!”
Yeah! Right after LMNOP!
ATT’s really rockin’ it with this malicious property...
Break up ATT. Telecom must not also control the message.
I thought it was owned by Disney? So many evil companies now a days it’s hard to keep track
It is great to see lawfare executed against the enemies of the US Constitution.
JoMa
So true. And disgusting.
Nobody wants to deal with Unions they are poison.
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