ABC, UNION TALK TO PLAN LOCKOUT END.Byline: Bloomberg News 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.'s ABC television network and representatives for about 2,400 unionized broadcast workers met Friday to discuss a return to work, to end a 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 that has entered its third month. Initially set for this coming Wednesday, talks were moved to Friday following criticism that the union - the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians, or NABET NABET National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians - is taking too long to call a vote on ABC's latest contract offer. The offer was presented on Dec. 11. The delay prompted some union members to break ranks with their leaders and seek a return to work. 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. technicians, engineers and writers represented by NABET have been locked out of the network jobs since Nov. 3 after they staged a 24-hour strike to protest changes in health care insurance. Among those who have sought to break from the union, including 12 producers at radio station KABC-AM (790). |
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