ABC ASKS COURT TO CURB PICKETS.Byline: Kim Chipman Bloomberg News 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 ABC Television may refer to:
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. says the pickets, including camera operators and other broadcast staffers, have harassed crews working for ABC News
ABC News is a division of American television and radio network ABC, owned by The Walt Disney Company. Its current president is David Westin. and ABC TV stations and affiliates, particularly in California. A ruling is expected soon from a state Superior Court in Los Angeles. The locked-out workers are represented by the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians. About 2,200 ABC workers have been locked out of their jobs since Nov. 2 after staging a surprise 24-hour strike to protest changes in health insurance at ABC and parent company Disney, based in Burbank. ABC says the employees can't return unless they promise not to take such action again without warning the company. The union has filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), independent agency of the U.S. government created under the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (Wagner Act), and amended by the acts of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Labor Act) and 1959 (Landrum-Griffin Act), which affirmed labor's right , asking that ABC's action be ruled illegal. A decision could come soon on that as well, a union spokesman said. Workers in five cities have been picketing ABC studios, resulting in several on-air mishaps and missed interviews, including one planned with Vice President Al Gore and more recently, former heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman, who was scheduled to appear Tuesday on ``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 .'' Foreman declined to cross a picket line, the union said. The protests have come within earshot ear·shot n. The range within which sound can be heard by the unaided ear; hearing distance: listened until the parade was out of earshot. of Disney Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Michael Eisner. On Tuesday, pickets showed up at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, where Eisner was receiving an award from the John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college), seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students, and that number is steadily rising. . Police barred protesters from entering the building or courtyard. Representatives from ABC and the union will resume contract negotiations Friday afternoon. A federal mediator will be present during the talks. The workers claim that ABC is demanding the union employees drop their current health coverage and switch to a new plan. They said the company isn't providing enough information about the care proposal. ABC and Disney say the union is using the health policy as a way to pressure management to concede to broader labor issues. The workers, who include technicians, artists and others who don't appear on screen, have been without a contract for two years. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO (Color) Michael Eisner Targeted in Tuesday protest |
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