ABC, UNION REACH DEAL ON CONTRACT.Byline: Dave McNary Staff Writer The ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. network announced Friday it has reached a tentative, four-year deal with negotiators for the 2,400 unionized technicians it locked out for 11 weeks last fall and winter. The pact, which must be ratified by employees, ends more than two years of working without a contract for camera operators, producers and other behind-the-scenes workers represented by the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians. About 600 of the affected employees work in the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. area. ``We're recommending ratification even though the tentative contract falls short of our objectives, because we believe it's the best agreement that can be achieved at this time,'' said NABET NABET National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians negotiator John Krieger. Results of the vote are expected to be released July 16. The pact provides for a 3.5 percent salary increase, retroactive to June 26, 3 percent increases for each of the next two years and a 3.5 percent increase in the final year through March 31, 2003. The union said the agreement also improves contract provisions covering vacation, discharges and the hiring of daily workers. ABC, owned by The Walt Disney Noun 1. Walt Disney - United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966) Disney, Walter Elias Disney Co., locked out NABET members in November after the union staged a one-day strike to protest the network's imposition of reduced health benefits. The walkout disrupted live telecasts by ABC, which barred the employees from returning to work unless it gave the network 72 hours' notice of future job actions. During the lockout lockout, intentional closing up of a company, factory, or shop by an employer to prevent employees from working during a strike or labor dispute. The term lockout , ABC used temporary workers while NABET members picketed network facilities and prominent Democrats and entertainers refused to be interviewed for shows like ``Good Morning America Good Morning America is a weekday morning news show that is broadcast on the ABC television network. The show was adapted from The Morning Exchange, a morning show created by and airing on the ABC affiliate in Cleveland, Ohio, and was launched nationally as ,'' ``Nightline'' and ``This Week.'' Five units turned down a network proposal in December, but the union returned to work in January after agreeing to give advance warning of future strikes in exchange for obtaining binding arbitration on dismissals of several members. Tentative agreements will be submitted to the 1,400 members of NABET units in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , San Francisco and Washington, D.C., that turned down ABC's December proposal. Upon ratification, the new contracts will become part of the master agreement between ABC and NABET and cover seven smaller units. |
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