Save Local News!

AFTRA members who work at WEEK/WHOI-TV have been in contract negotiations with station owners since November 2010. Negotiations stalled on Feb. 18, 2011 and since then, AFTRA members have been working without a contract. Despite months of good faith bargaining, concessions to company proposals and repeated requests by AFTRA for the company to return to the negotiating table, to date, the company has flatly refused.

 

The truth is Silver Point is not interested in local news. It is only interested in making money. Silver Point has cut the local news budget, eliminated the jobs of 20 union engineers, installed robotic cameras in their place, has piped in local weather from Fort Wayne, Indiana and soon, the entire local news broadcast could be outsourced to another city.

 

Will you wake up one day to find your local news is no longer local?

November 4, 2011	AFTRA and WEEK/WHOI Back at the Table "I am very proud of the reporters, anchors, producers and photographers at WEEK/WHOI. They have stood up for themselves and their profession. AFTRA is also grateful to the community for the support shown to us" said AFTRA Local President Gary Moore
August 9, 2011	Tom Arnold for Local News
July 14, 2011	Day of Reckoning Rally
July 14, 2011	Tweet Your Support for Quality Journalism in Central Illinois Station Management Imposes New Contract on Unit AFTRA members who work at Peoria’s WEEK/WHOI-TV are Central Illinois’ home team. We are photographers, producers, reporters, anchors, meterologists and mulitmedia journalists. Combined, we account for more than 500 years of local news experience. Together, we are working...
July 15, 2011	Tweet Your Support for Local News Members of AFTRA Peoria launch a Twitter campaign in conjunction with the “Day of Reckoning” rally for WEEK/WHOI-TV member employees.
July 12, 2011	Day of Reckoning’ for WEEK/WHOI-TV Members of the Peoria Local have announced that on Friday, July 15 they will hold a 'Day of Reckoning' rally for WEEK/WHOI-TV. They are inviting community and business allies, including local labor, civic and religious leaders to join them for the rally.
May 17, 2011	Fight for Fair Contracts AFTRA Peoria members distributed flyers to the residence and neighbors of Granite Broadcasting’s CEO Peter Markham. The flyers and call on the community to support professional AFTRA broadcast journalists.
April 27, 2011	AFTRA Fights Outsourcing in Peoria
March 1, 2011	I'm Your Local News

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