Word: backpayment
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...particularly during the height of uncertainty about the station's future last month. One stringer tells of a producer who gets angry when he brings in story ideas, because the station can't afford to buy them. Other stringers have stopped submitting pieces because the network still owes them backpay. Where NPR once made extensive use of its satellite system to transmit live pieces from Argentina or the Middle East, the news shows are doing more pieces from Washington to save money. Many believe the network should not channel all funds toward paying off the debt, but rather direct...
...discharge of workers who sympathize with the TWUA is Stevens most frequent tactic. Stevens has been found guilty of illegally discharging 289 workers in 15 cases, and was forced to rehire tham with backpay totalling $1.3 million. However, legal penalties come only after two to four years of litigation, and thus long after an organizing drive hay been strangled. As a result, Stevens can effectively ignore labor laws...
...company has decided that all the illegal actions, fines, backpay settlements, lawyers fees and court costs are still easier and cheaper than dealing with the union. And so far, the strategy has worked...
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