Writers, stations at loggerheads as contract talks break down.(Writers Guild of America, East)(Viacom Inc.)

From: Los Angeles Business Journal | Date: April 18, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Contract talks between writers and producers at three CBS stations in Los Angeles have stalled amid charges that the network's management was demanding more work for the same pay and attempting to strip producers of union protections.

Negotiations between the Writers Guild of America-East, which represents news writers, producers and promotion writers at CBS owned-and-operated stations in Los Angeles, and Viacom Inc.-owned CBS grew increasingly rancorous over two weeks of negotiations, according to union officials, leading to the April 1 expiration of the prior three-year ...

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