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PAGE 10 | June 5, 2015 | NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS Facing Gannett, KGW-TV unions pass a test of unity In a bit of bargaining-table drama, three unions at KGW- TV showed unity last month by attending each other’s contract negotiating sessions, taking a company negotiator by surprise. At KGW, Portland’s NBC af- filiate, SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television & Ra- dio Artists) represents on-cam- era staff, IATSE (International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees) Local 600 repre- sents camera operators, and In- ternational Brotherhood of Elec- Prospects revive for Oregon sick leave bill SALEM—A bill to mandate paid sick leave statewide moved forward in a Joint Ways and Means subcommit- tee June 2. Senate Bill 454, as amended, would require em- ployers with 10 or more em- trical Workers (IBEW) Local 48 represents control room opera- tors and technicians. Historically, the three unions have bargained separately at KGW. But this time, facing a strange demand from a new em- ployer, the three have banded to- gether. Gannett—which ac- quired KGW in 2013 when it bought Belo Corporation— wants to end “exclusive union jurisdiction” in its union con- tracts. Union reps don’t fully un- derstand the ramifications of that proposal, but they think it ployees to provide up to 40 hours a year of paid sick leave. Employers smaller than that would have to allow an equal amount of unpaid sick leave. The measure would pre-empt local sick leave ordinances, but would set a separate threshold for Portland of six or more em- ployees for paid sick leave, matching the cutoff under a Portland ordinance that took effect January 2014. would mean that nonunion workers could be brought in to do the same work as union members, but under different terms. That could dramatically unravel the union, and put mem- bers’ job security in jeopardy. Union reps say when IBEW and SAG representatives showed up to a May 12 IATSE negotiating session at KGW, Gannett labor relations director Tim Fair was furious, and said he wouldn’t proceed if IBEW and SAG were in the room. The unions failed to budge, so he said what followed would be an off-the-record discussion, not a negotiation. Then IATSE and IBEW showed up to a May 13 bargain- ing session with SAG. This time, Fair said he wouldn’t bar- gain, or even discuss. And he went further: Gannett might be prepared to offer SAG some- thing it wasn’t going to offer the other groups, Fair said; wouldn’t they want to hear pri- vately what it was? “No thanks,” was the collective an- swer. 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