500 CBS News writers, represented by the Writers Guild of America East (WGAE), are preparing for a strike vote this Thursday.
Employees of CBS News TV and radio operations in New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles have been working without a contract… and without a pay raise… since April 2005.
Broadcasting & Cable reports writers are fighting CBS proposals to withhold retroactive pay and implement a two-tiered wage package that puts television and network radio members on one pay scale and local radio members on a lower scale.
There’s also trouble brewing at ABC News, where about 200 WGA members have been working without a contract since 2005.