Pittsburgh City Paper: Employees at Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation have voted 26-1 to unionize after announcing their plans to organize in late August.
Union members say today’s verdict demonstrates unity and determination among the broadcasters at Pittsburgh's twin public radio stations, WESA and WYEP.
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This has been an interesting process to follow first hand as the group petitioned to unionize and now is officially ratified as a union by the National Labor Relations Board. There are a couple things that stand out to me - the first is I heard the opinion recently that unionization is a failure of management, and I think that this situation sounds like it absolutely happened because people didn’t feel like their voices were heard. The other thing that surprised me by number is that there’s only about thirty people in the union and that sounds like a small number to me - except that my workplace is unionized with about thirty employees as well, so I guess I shouldn’t be that surprised. I remember being frustrated and commenting on an article about management of the company not accepting the petition and forcing them to do a NLRB hearing which to me just feels like a union busting strategy (especially considering a grand total of one voted against the move.)
I feel like I have seen lots of new groups of people in the entertainment industry voting to unionize recently. I love to see this push in the world we live in today. I feel like pre pandemic there wasn't a ton of talk about unions. I mean I always knew about IATSE and SAG-AFTRA but I hadn't seen so many groups pushing to join one or the other before. It is really encouraging to think that unions are becoming a huge thing again and that they are really an important part in protecting workers in entertainment. I am surprised that the management of a lot of the places I've read about, including the companies in this article have been pushing back against their employees unionizing. It's something that I would think we would be past in this day and age. I can see why they are trying to push back against it as management, but I feel like attempting to stop their employees from unionizing is a little bit futile today.
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