SAG-AFTRA Reaches $500,000 Settlement With Spanish Broadcasting
SAG-AFTRA reached a $500,000 settlement with the Spanish Broadcasting System over workers terminated for union activity, SAG-AFTRA announced Tuesday. The National Labor Relations Board had issued a complaint against SBS after “finding merit to a myriad of serious unfair labor…
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practice charges filed by the union against the media company for discharging employees in retaliation for their union activity and engaging in egregious bad faith surface bargaining during first contract negotiations,” the union said. All eight affected employees will receive full back pay, interest and expenses through Jan. 14, under the deal, and have the choice to be reinstated or receive “significant front pay,” the release said: It requires SBS to “engage in good faith bargaining with the goal of obtaining a collective bargaining agreement.” SBS didn't comment.