SAG-AFTRA Committed to Seattle Broadcasting

By Karen O’Leary
Seattle Local Vice President (Broadcast)

Seattle is an important market for SAG-AFTRA for many reasons. We are an important media market, with three organized TV stations, three radio stations and a traffic reporter unit, and a total of nine collective bargaining agreements. In the coming months, the union will be assisting in providing additional leadership training, support for the local broadcast steering committee, broadcast-oriented seminars and national support for local negotiations.

You may know that SAG-AFTRA president Ken Howard visited Seattle in May, where he met with members and visited television stations KIRO, KING and KOMO. More recently, two national staff representatives traveled to Seattle. They, too, met with members and spent time at Seattle television and radio stations.

We’ll have updates on these broadcast initiatives in future newsletters and through the new local Broadcast Steering Committee. Through this process, we hope to become more united, more knowledgeable and to gain more control over our work lives. We have a great opportunity to help improve our future.

This item was originally featured in the September 2015 local newsletter.