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IBEW Broadcasting Members Face
Job-Reducing Technologies

February 21, 2006

Broadcasting employees at KHON-TV in Honolulu, Hawaii, are the latest IBEW members to face job cuts due to expanding newsroom technologies.

Members of IBEW Local 1260 have been meeting to discuss impact bargaining for several part-time employees whose jobs will be immediately affected by new high-definition switchers. 

The equipment, produced by France-based Thomson Multimedia, mixes video, sound and graphics for the airing of live events.

Ironically, Thomson, the former owner of the RCA label, is the same corporation that closed two TV glass and tube production plants in Ohio in 2004. The shutdowns left over 1,300 IBEW members unemployed as their work was sent to Mexico and China.

Read the Honolulu Star Bulletin Story...

 

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