rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/letter/tell-kqed-to-stop-union-busting?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-letter-area-tell-kqed-to-stop-union-busting' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> Dennis Csillag https://actionnetwork.org/users/dennis-csillag/profile https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/share_options/facebook_images/000/112/015/original/KQEDfb.jpg Please support our fight for a good contract – for good working conditions – and for local television production at KQED.  Send a message to KQED President John Boland or call him at (415) 553-2201. Background: For more than 60 years NABET has represented workers at KQED (radio and television).  We helped build KQED into the number one radio station in the Bay Area, and we produced the television that used to make the Bay Area proud.  We did cooking shows: Yan Can Cook, Joanne Weir’s Cooking at the Academy and recently Jacques Pepin’s programs; and we do the technical work on Check Please!, science programs: Quest, Digital Rapids; art programs: Spark, Independent View; and Newsroom– we were there when it started as a way to get the news during a San Francisco Chronicle newspaper strike….and we did the camera work, the audio, played back the video (first on tape and now files), and we represented the stage managers on all these shows. But the KQED that we grew up with (and helped grow) no longer wants to cooperate with their employees or their Union.  We find them putting new employees and resources into the internet – they want to make webcasts and podcasts not tv programs – and keep those non-union.  And KQED is not making local television shows each year: now fewer than 45 new “Newsroom” shows, and only 14 new episodes of “Check Please!” this year. Our technical crew in television broadcasting was more than 30 people in 2003, now the group is fewer than 18.  WE don’t want to keep people here getting paid for no reason….we know that there is an explosion in the amount of programming on cable and the internet – and we think that KQED should be producing local programing (they could even market such programs to other public broadcasters around the country).  But KQED has lost interest in television broadcasting – they only want to pass-through programs made by others.   We know that Union Busting is Not a Bay Area value…..we know that the residents of the Bay Area respect unions and workers.  So too do the viewers and listeners of KQED. And most certainly we believe that the members of KQED– who contribute funds – via the work of folks in the membership department who are also represented by NABET-CWA – are committed to good working conditions and unions at KQED. When we gave notice to terminate the contract extension – instead of focusing on their proposals and removing their union busting proposals from the table – KQED actively encouraged union members to resign from NABET-CWA – and asked if they planned to cross the picket-line. Please support our fight for a good contract – for good working conditions – and for good local television production at KQED.  Send a message to KQED President John Boland or call him at (415) 553-2201. https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-kqed-to-stop-union-busting