NBC union projects graphics on 30 Rock accusing leadership of stalling on contract

NBC's integer worker national projected scathing messages onto 30 Rock Wednesday night, blasting institution enactment for dragging its feet connected a contract. 

NBC Digital NewsGuild, a corporate bargaining portion of the NewsGuild of New York, called retired NBC News executives for allegedly "unlawful behavior" by lighting up "breaking news" messages connected the company's flagship gathering successful midtown Manhattan, 30 Rock. 

The NBC Digital NewsGuild represents reporters, editors, designers, video journalists, animators, societal media strategists and editorial unit of NBC News Digital, who person been negotiating its archetypal declaration since the radical unionized successful 2019.

The projections specifically targeted NBCUniversal News Group Chairman Cesar Conde, arsenic good arsenic NBC News Editorial President Rebecca Blumenstein, Executive Vice President of Programming Janelle Rodriguez, Executive Vice President of News Catherine Kim and Executive Vice President of TODAY and Lifestyle Libby Leist for engaging successful tactics that they accidental person violated labour laws, including layoffs of much than 20 national journalists without bargaining and retaliating against national members for taking portion successful protected activity. 

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"Cesar Conde and his enactment squad person a atrocious wont of breaking the law," Tate James, video exertion and national leader, said successful a connection to Fox News Digital. 

"But present he’s dealing with a newsroom afloat of journalists who are sick and bushed of moving without a declaration and trying to pursuit their bosses down successful court. NBC News executives are obsessed with shareholder value, but they’re disrespecting the workers that make that worth successful the archetypal place. We merit a just contract, and we're not backing down from this combat until we get one," helium added.

In 2021, the National Labor Relations Board recovered that NBC had unlawfully withheld much than $350,000 successful raises from national journalists, according to a property merchandise shared with Fox News Digital. 

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"Bosses astatine @NBCNews support breaking the law, truthful we’re backmost extracurricular 30 Rock to radiance a small airy connected the situation," the NBC Guild posted to X Wednesday night. "Union workers person the close to a steward successful investigatory meetings, but @cesarconde_’s absorption squad illegally and inexcusably withheld that close from a member."

"This is conscionable the latest successful a agelong enactment of unacceptable actions by the @NBCNews enforcement team, but it's not slowing america down. Every time our national grows stronger and much committed to the combat for a just archetypal declaration and respect successful the workplace," the station added. 

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The NewsGuild of New York, Local 31003 of the Communications Workers of America, is simply a labour national representing astir 6,000 media professionals and different employees astatine New York country quality organizations, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Thomson Reuters and ProPublica.

Fox News Digital reached retired to NBC News for remark but did not instantly person a response.