CBS owned station WBZ has supplied buyouts to photographers and engineers. The Boston Globe has confirmed the transfer by the employees union on Thursday. This comes a day after well being reporter Dr. Mallika Marshall introduced she’d been laid off.
Fletcher Fischer, enterprise supervisor and monetary secretary for IBEW Native 1228, stated the information station is providing buyouts to 6 photographers and three individuals within the engineering division. The union at the moment represents 36 employees at WBZ, which is owned by CBS,he stated.
An Aug. 15 deadline has been set for employees to resolve in the event that they need to settle for the buyout, and their ultimate day could be someday in September, Fischer stated. He stated he was undecided if the station will remove these positions.
“Is that this only a solution to scale back the physique depend at WBZ, or are they going to switch them with cheaper and youthful workers?” Fischer stated in an interview Thursday.
The union’s presence at WBZ is small in comparison with different native tv stations. Fischer stated the union represents greater than 95 employees at WHDH-TV and about 90 at WCVB-TV.
Fischer stated he consider the buyouts have been indirectly due to Paramount’s $8 billion merger with Skydance Media.
“I gotta consider it has one thing to do with the merger,” he stated, referencing the corporate’s settlement with Trump and up to date turmoil at CBS. “And so they canceled Colbert.”
We requested CBS about it, however haven’t heard again. We’ll replace once we do.
