Overview
- The roughly 60 WGAE-represented employees staged a bicoastal walkout from 6 a.m. ET Tuesday to 6 a.m. ET Wednesday with pickets at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York and KPIX in San Francisco.
- Union leaders say management’s latest proposals are worse than prior deals, citing disputes over raises, defined schedules and overtime rules, and stronger severance protections.
- About 95% of the bargaining unit signed a strike pledge, and more than 2,900 WGAE members sent support letters pressing for a fair contract.
- CBS says it is negotiating in good faith and hopes to reach a resolution quickly, while no agreement has been announced.
- Union statements contrasted Paramount Skydance’s planned Warner Bros. Discovery purchase and recent layoffs with the lack of guarantees for wages and protections, framing the dispute as Bari Weiss’s first union test as editor-in-chief.