{"id":1692,"date":"2013-12-18T20:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T02:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=1692"},"modified":"2013-12-19T09:42:55","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T15:42:55","slug":"wbez-staffers-approve-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2013\/12\/18\/wbez-staffers-approve-union\/","title":{"rendered":"WBEZ staffers approve union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/WBEZ.jpg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2013\/12\/18\/wbez-staffers-approve-union\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1693\" alt=\"WBEZ\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/WBEZ-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/WBEZ-300x300.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/WBEZ-150x150.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/WBEZ-400x400.jpg 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/WBEZ-800x800.jpg 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/WBEZ-200x200.jpg 200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/WBEZ-57x57.jpg 57w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/WBEZ-72x72.jpg 72w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/WBEZ-114x114.jpg 114w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/WBEZ-144x144.jpg 144w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/WBEZ.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/a>Employees at Chicago Public Media, including reporters, hosts and producers at WBEZ FM 91.5, have agreed to unionize for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>By a 40-7 vote Wednesday, staffers authorized SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild\/American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) to represent them in negotiating their first contract with the board of nonprofit Chicago Public Media. The election was supervised by the National Labor Relations Board after a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2013\/10\/13\/shutdown-stalls-wbez-unionizing-bid\/\" target=\"_blank\">petition signed<\/a> by 39 employees was filed in late September.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The new bargaining unit will cover 49 staffers who work in content and technical areas of WBEZ, Vocalo, \u201cSound Opinions\u201d and digital services. Chicago Public Media has a total of 123 full-time employees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChicago Public Media is a valuable resource to all Chicagoans,\u201d WBEZ reporter Rob Wildeboer said in a statement after the vote. \u201cThe staff of CPM cares deeply about this organization and its mission. Public radio is more than a job. Staff at CPM are deeply committed to the station and we love our work.\u00a0We have great leaders and a committed board and we believe organizing as staff members is an important step to achieving the goals we all share here: producing excellent journalism that serves the public and making this important local institution even stronger than it is today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Chicago, SAG-AFTRA represents content creators at WBBM AM 780\/WCFS FM 105.9, WLS AM 890, WBBM-Channel 2, WMAQ-Channel 5, WLS-Channel 7, WGN-Channel 9, WTTW-Channel 11 and WFLD-Channel 32.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes as the board of Chicago Public Media is conducting a nationwide search for a new president and CEO to replace Torey Malatia, who was forced to resign last July after 20 years at the company. Alison Scholly, who has been chief operating officer since 2010, is serving as interim CEO until the position is filled.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday morning update:<\/strong>\u00a0A spokeswoman for Chicago Public Media said: \u201cWe respect the election totals and will start the collective bargaining process with staff at the earliest appropriate time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employees at Chicago Public Media, including reporters, hosts and producers at WBEZ FM 91.5, have agreed to unionize for the first time. By a 40-7 vote Wednesday, staffers authorized SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild\/American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) to represent them in negotiating their first contract with the board of nonprofit Chicago Public Media.... <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2013\/12\/18\/wbez-staffers-approve-union\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&#8594;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1718,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions\/1718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}