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<h1>WGBH Workers Need Your Support! (corrected)</h1>
<p><em>[The links did not work in the last message. They are corrected here - UJP]</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.aeef.org/"><img alt="AEEF/CWA Local 1300" vspace="5" hspace="10" align="right" src="http://www.aeef.org/2010-ID-sticker-small.gif"></a></p>
<p>Workers at WGBH, our local public television and radio stations, are fighting for the basic right to have an effective union in their workplace. They are members of <a href="http://www.aeef.org/">AEEF/CWA Local 1300</a>, and have been organized for nearly 40 years.</p>
<p>In the past, WGBH has bargained in good faith with their workers. This time, management has brought to the bargaining table a complete rewrite of the contract, demanding that workers give up basic union rights and renegotiate the whole document.</p>
<p>WGBH has gone so far as to justify their actions by freezing wages and reducing the benefits of unorganized workers and demanding that organized workers do the same. When the contract expired, the company took the nuclear option to not extend the contract and discontinue collecting dues.</p>
<p>The offer from management is impossible for workers to accept. Take a minute to let WGBH know that you support the workers!</p>
<p><a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4023/c/195/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1288"><strong>Click here to take action and send a message to WGBH!</strong></a><strong> You can write your own message -- personalized communications are more effective. (If you are a WGBH donor, be sure to mention it...)</strong></p>
<h2>Management is demanding:</h2>
<p>ability to subcontract any and all bargaining unit work</p>
<p>ability for management and unorganized workers to do bargaining unit work</p>
<p>unlimited and unregulated use of unpaid volunteers to do bargaining unit work</p>
<p>ability to assign new work to unit members with no obligation to bargain over the terms (including training and the potential for discipline for poor performance of the new work)</p>
<p>ability to terminate your favorite on-air hosts without cause or due process</p>
<p>new standards for arbitrating the discipline of all union employees that would make it easier for the employer to discipline or discharge those members</p>
<p>new prohibitions on most forms of collective action during term of contract that would silence our voices</p>
<p>to significantly reduce many benefits employees have come to rely on including severance, sick leave, retirement contributions and personal time</p>
<p>employees who are currently above the top of the wage scale won’t get even a modest annual wage increase</p>
<h2>What makes matters worse....</h2>
<p>In fiscal year 2009, WGBH workers agreed to serious and deep cuts to their wages and benefits, some workers losing more than 30% of their income.</p>
<p>At the same time that workers were taking cuts to help WGBH solve a financial crisis,<strong> the heads of WGBH awarded themselves bonuses totaling more than $200,000.</strong></p>
<p>This is not behaving fairly to employees. We believe that management should take negotiations seriously and negotiate. We believe management should be responsible like they have been in the past and respect the union. We believe in fairness at WGBH.</p>
<p><a href="http://afl.salsalabs.com/o/4023/c/195/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1288"><strong>Click here to take action and send a message to WGBH!</strong></a><strong> (If you are a WGBH donor, be sure to mention it...)</strong></p>
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