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Comcast vs WGA: Latest Guild Battleground
LA City Council President Eric Garcetti tomorrow will announce the 
results of a “secret ballot union representation election” conducted for writers on Comcast’s E!, Style, and G4 entertainment networks. The writers voted today whether to designate the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) as their bargaining rep. Garcetti’s office monitored the election and will tally and certify the results.
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Under federal law, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) must oversee secret ballot representation election.
Has the NLRB delegated this task to the L.A. City Council, or is this just a WGA-inspired stunt to put pressure on Comcast to unionize prior to the finalization the NBC/U deal, which is in the final stages of negotiation in Washington?
I think the bigger question is why you are so obsessed with this. Every article you come in with a comment about how horrible this is.
The fact that you doubt the NLRB was there is hilarious and a great reason for you to keep your trap shut. You’re completely ignorant.
JimK, the NLRB is only ONE route to union representation – if the organized can demonstrate to an impartial third party (i.e. the L.A. City Council) that they have majority support, the organized can directly enter into negotiations without the months-long foot-dragging experience of NLRB intervention.
Comcast wants the NLRB because it will give them time to force its employees into more captive-audience union-busting meetings, and when the NLRB election shows what this week’s election will surely prove, they can appeal the decision and drag their feet for even longer.
The reality is this – the writers at CEG have organized, and a majority of them want WGA representation. Why do we have to go through all this song and dance?
Trolls abound on DHD! The point is that the writers want to be represented, and in the USA that’s supposed to mean they get to bargain with their employer. The NLRB is the death zone for unions, and that’s why Comcast wants to go there. So much for their claim they will “maintain the good relations with the guilds and unions that NBCU has had.”
Is that in contrast to Comcast’s stunts to bust unions and threaten employees that they are so famous for?