Coca Cola Strike: Still No Talks
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Associated Press
Published: Mon, November 19, 2007 - 4:59 pm
Last Updated: Mon, November 19, 2007 - 5:00 pm
Last Updated: Mon, November 19, 2007 - 5:00 pm
NEW YORK (AP) - CBS News writers have authorized their union
leaders to call a national strike.
The Writers Guild of America says 81 percent of the 300 writers
who participated in a vote held last Thursday gave WGA negotiators
the power to call a work stoppage.
About 500 CBS News television and radio writers -- who work in
New York, Los Angeles, Washington and Chicago -- have been working
under an expired contract since April of 2005.
CBS News and the WGA have not been at the negotiating table
since January after the union rejected what CBS at the time called
its final offer in November 2006.
Hollywood drama and comedy writers, who are also represented by
the WGA, are entering the third week of an unrelated industry
strike.
(Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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