Common use of Local Television Clause in Contracts

Local Television. Seniority will accrue only on the list an employee is placed on. It is understood that employees with such "separate seniority" will not be transferred from one shop to another against their will. SIDELETTER 3‌ (Nonexclusive Technical Duties) Inability of an Employee on staff as of March 1, 1981 to perform technical duties after a good faith effort to do so shall not be a basis for discipline of such Employee. The Company will not assign technical duties to the staff, where the performance of such duties is within the exclusive jurisdiction of another union. (Consecutive Days Off) The addition of language in the 1987 negotiations to this Supplement concerning consecutive days off shall not affect any practices existing under this Supplement that facilitate scheduling changes into and out of Saturdays and Sundays as days off. SIDELETTER 5‌ (Producers) During the negotiations for the successor to the 2002-2005 WGA-CBS Staff Agreement and Supplements, the parties discussed at great length the duties, skills and abilities necessary to being an effective producer. The company argued that only management personnel could be effective while the WGA argued that employees in its unit could perform these duties as well as management could. The parties did agree that producers serve a leadership and oversight role for others assigned to the program or segment that is critical to the quality and success of the broadcasts. The parties further agree to the following. WGA covered Newswriters and Editors may be assigned by the Company, on a non-exclusive basis, to perform all duties necessary to function as producers, including show producers. Those producer duties include, but are not necessarily limited to, the following: (a) Directing the work of other employees, including bargaining unit personnel. (b) Work with management as directed in order to plan and execute assignments. (c) Attempt to resolve performance problems with other employees, including bargaining unit employees working under the producer’s direction. If such attempts are unsuccessful, the performance problems must be reported to management promptly. (d) Testify or otherwise speak in support of disciplinary actions taken as a result of the performance problems described in (c), above. The parties agree that the ability of producers to perform the functions described above is essential to the success of their position, and the failure of any producer to perform these functions in a satisfactory manner will subject them to discipline up to and including the termination of their employment. However, termination may occur only in instances where employee has agreed to such assignment, and only after employee has worked as a producer or Editor for a period of eight (8) consecutive weeks, during which time such employee shall have the option to return to work at the title of Newswriter or Editor. The Company agrees that all Newswriters and Editors covered under this Agreement are bargaining unit employees although they may be assigned to perform producer duties, as described above. Notwithstanding any of the other terms of this Sideletter, the Company agrees not to raise or challenge the non-supervisory status of the Newswriters, Editors or producers covered under this Agreement. During the course of the 2010 negotiations, the parties had lengthy, spirited discussions concerning the Company’s proposal to make all jurisdiction non-exclusive. The Company’s position was that it needed the ability to have non-unit employees perform unit work, since it believes that in the future, employees will need to perform multiple functions. The Guild’s position was that it wanted to be certain that the employees it represents, and the Guild itself, will have a place in the future operations of the Company. As a result of those discussions, the parties agreed as follows: 1. This letter applies only to those television stations covered by this Agreement: WCBS-TV in New York, WBBM-TV in Chicago, and KCBS-TV/KCAL-TV in Los Angeles. 2. At each of the stations listed above, it is understood that non-unit employees who perform news-related functions may perform functions (except Graphic Artist function and Promotion Writer functions) which are within the exclusive jurisdiction of WGA-represented employees, as long as the commitment contained in paragraph 3(c), below, is honored. This provision shall not be used to layoff Guild-represented employees at other Guild-covered stations that do not have Guild minimum percentages like those listed in paragraph 3(c) below by using Guild members from local television stations to perform their work. (a) At the time this letter was negotiated the following numbers of employees at each station were performing news-related functions: ▇▇▇▇-▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇-▇▇ ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇-▇▇/▇▇▇▇-▇▇ ▇▇▇ (▇) At the time this letter was negotiated the following numbers of employees at each station were performing functions within the exclusive jurisdiction of WGA- represented employees: WCBS-TV 22 WBBM-TV 7 KCBS-TV/KCAL-TV 26 (c) The three television stations have agreed to maintain the following percentages of WGA-represented employees to the overall composition of newsroom employees as follows: WCBS-TV 20% WBBM-TV 8% KCBS-TV/KCAL-TV 16% (d) It is understood that in the event of layoffs, retirements, resignations, discharges, a station may temporarily fall below its agreed-upon percentage temporarily, but it will return to that percentage within ninety (90) days. 2019-2022 STAFF NEWS DESK ASSOCIATES (NEW YORK) SUPPLEMENT TO THE WGA-CBS NATIONAL STAFF AGREEMENT Article Page I. SCOPE OF AGREEMENT AND DUTIES 93 II. SALARIES 93