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CNN 25-Year Trivia |
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| Date Posted: |
05/20/2005 |
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The thing about the NABET drive in 81/82 was that CNN used every dirty trick in the book to defeat it. It was really not an even "up or down" vote. Management went to department heads and told them "vote no, convince your staff to vote no, and we will take care of you." And they did. After it was over, people that supported the union were punished and those that sold out were rewarded with promotions. Some big shots at CNN today made their bones selling out their fellow employees. That's the truth, hard as it is to say. The lesson for me was that you could not count on too many people in the workplace. People I thought were friends sold out the union organizers for the chance to get ahead at CNN. Sad. The final insult was that all the things we were asking for - work rules, breaks, better pay, etc. - CNN provided later. What the union asked for CNN finally gave. So the people that asked for those things were proved right. But that made no difference at the time. If you were involved in the union movement at CNN you pretty much had to leave, or were stuck in your job and denied promotion as your punishment. I bet there are less than 10 people at CNN today that made it through that mess on the union side. I always thought that management should have just gotten up and said "hey, it's over." Instead they went about making sure that anybody involved pro-union suffered. |
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Apparently money's no object these days at cnn, what with the nearly-completed move to NYC. Still don't get it. What a waste.
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