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    News Article ● Strike

    WTTW technicians on strike against Chicago public TV station vow ‘to be out here as long as it takes’

    March 22, 2022 // Two dozen striking WTTW technicians came out from behind the cameras and held a union rally in front of the station’s North Side studios Monday seeking support in their quest for job guarantees and a new labor contract.

    camera operators Check Please Chicago Chicago Tonight Chicago Tribune classical music station Downers Grove Downers Grove-based IBEW Local 1220 employees Evan Metz executive producer Jay Smith floor crew graphic artists IBEW International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1220 job guarantees John Rizzo labor contract Labor Dispute layoffs lighting and staging Local 1220 locked out Lori Lightfoot National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians new labor contract news producers NewsNation nonunion personnel North Side studios one-year extension public TV station radio and television broadcast engineers Rally Robert Channick Sandra Cordova Micek Soundstage sports talk station WSCR-AM 670 Union union rally WBBM-AM 780 WBBM-Ch. 2 WCIU-Ch. 26 WFMT-FM 98.7 WGN-Ch. 9 Window to the World Communications WTTW WTTW technicians WTTW-Ch. 11