About Us
NABET-CWA is the major union representing employees in the telecommunications, broadcasting and cable industries. Local 54 has represented employees of KGTV in San Diego since the station signed-on in September of 1953. NABET-CWA represents KGTV’s Engineers, Technicians, Production Videographer/Editors, Directors,Assistant Directors, Technical Directors, Media Managers, Graphic Designers and Design Director.
NABET-CWA strives primarily to give its members a sense of pridein their work and dignity in their work place. We are 
comprised of highly specialized professional workers. Our efforts are directed to steadily improving our status through the achievement of better working conditions and higher wages. NABET-CWA represents employees at ABC, NBC and over 100 private radio & TV, Film and Video companies.
Before NABET-CWA, broadcast employees worked split shifts; there was no pay or time off for holidays; there was no overtime pay. NABET-CWA has achieved the Union Shop; Paid vacation and statutory holidays;
Lay-off and rehiring on seniority basis;
Differential pay for night work;
Discharge for just and sufficient cause only; 12-hour turn-around period; Late meal period penalties;
Grievance procedure, including arbitration;
Contract provisions for automation;
Pension Plans; Overtime pay;
Highest wages and best working conditions in the industry.
Organize: Live Better, Work Union
In today's political and economic climate, now more
than ever workers need to join together. A union is simply a majority of employees who join together to better their work lives. A union can help create a
more level
playing field with your employer. Instead of one person telling
management that wages should be fair, health and safety
regulations
should befollowed and employees deserve good 
health care benefits,
a union helps you speak together, in one voice. And that
chorus of
voices has more power than one lone voice. A union is the
vehicle
workers can use to help bring the chorus together.
NABET-CWA's organizing goal is not to just win elections. Winning elections assures the union and employees of their legal right
to enter into negotiations with the employer. That's all. NABET-CWA's
organizing goal is to build a strong organization to better
enable
employees to negotiate good contracts and increase their
standard of living and quality of life.
With a union, workers can get together and create a positive vision for
their workplace. If you think you and your co-workers might be
interested
in joining together to make some changes in your work
lives, email us.
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