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Images From The Mobilization Campaign

Solidarity Week: Local 54 members attend a Padres game.
Solidarity Week: Local 54 members attend a Padres game.
Solidarity Week: Local 54 members attend a Padres game.
Local 54 members - with help from supporting unions - distribute handbills at businesses that advertise on KGTV.
Local 54 members - with help from supporting unions - distribute handbills at businesses that advertise on KGTV.

Local 54 members - with help from supporting unions - distribute handbills at businesses that advertise on KGTV.
Some businesses fight back against informational handbilling. Employees at Coles Carpets turned a hose on Local 54 Vice-President Robert Buchanan. San Diego Police upheld our right to handbill.
Some businesses fight back against informational handbilling. Employees at Witt Lincoln-Mercury tried using an air siren on our members. San Diego Police ordered them to stop and upheld our right to handbill.
Local 54 members attend the all-union march and rally on Cesar Chavez Day.
Local 54 members attend the all-union march and rally on Cesar Chavez Day.

Local Vice-President Robert Buchanan and his family attend the annual all-union march and rally on Cesar Chavez Day.
Local 54 members attend the Cesar Chavez Memorial Breakfast. The organizers have refused participation from KGTV year after year because of the station's union-busting campaign.
Local 54 supporters hold 10NewsUnfair.com signs at Golden Hall on election night. The signs appeared in the background of the 10News coverage. Many candidates refused to be interviewed by the station.
NABET-CWA is using mobile billboards to direct the public to 10NewsUnfair.com. The truck has logged thousands of miles since the start of the dispute.
Local 54 members distribute handbills at public events where KGTV has a presence. This is Earth Day at Balboa Park.

Local 54 members distribute handbills at public events where KGTV has a presence. This is Cinco de Mayo at the Del Mar Fairgrounds.
Local 54 members distribute handbills at public events where KGTV has a presence. This is Cinco de Mayo at the Del Mar Fairgrounds.
Local 54 members distribute handbills at public events where KGTV has a presence. This is Cinco de Mayo at the Del Mar Fairgrounds.
Local 54 members distribute handbills at public events where KGTV has a presence. This is a recycling event in Kearny Mesa.
Bus benches like this one are displayed across the county, from Oceanside to Chula Vista and downtown to Alpine.

Local 54 supporters seek out live trucks like this one and stage protests during KGTV live reports.
Local 54 has staged a dozen all-union rallies since the start of the dispute. The rallies demonstrate the solidarity among all local unions and their members to just "Turn Off 10News."
NABET-CWA national president James Joyce addresses Local 54 members and supporting unions at a rally.
Local 54 has staged a dozen all-union rallies since the start of the dispute. The rallies demonstrate the solidarity among all local unions and their members to just "Turn Off 10News."
San Diego & Imperial Counties Labor Council CEO Lorena Gonzalez addresses union members at a Local 54 rally. The support of the Labor Council and over 189,000 local union families has been vital to the mobilization campaign.

Local 54 has staged a dozen all-union rallies since the start of the dispute. The rallies demonstrate the solidarity among all local unions and their members to just "Turn Off 10News."
Local 54 has staged a dozen all-union rallies since the start of the dispute. The rallies demonstrate the solidarity among all local unions and their members to just "Turn Off 10News."
Local 54 has staged a dozen all-union rallies since the start of the dispute. The rallies demonstrate the solidarity among all local unions and their members to just "Turn Off 10News."
NABET-CWA National Representative Don Jernigan attends a Local 54 rally. NABET-CWA and CWA continue to fund this mobilization campaign.
Local 54 has staged a dozen all-union rallies since the start of the dispute. The rallies demonstrate the solidarity among all local unions and their members to just "Turn Off 10News."

Local 54 has staged a dozen all-union rallies since the start of the dispute. The rallies demonstrate the solidarity among all local unions and their members to just "Turn Off 10News."
Local 54 has staged a dozen all-union rallies since the start of the dispute. The rallies demonstrate the solidarity among all local unions and their members to just "Turn Off 10News."
Local 54 has staged a dozen all-union rallies since the start of the dispute. The rallies demonstrate the solidarity among all local unions and their members to just "Turn Off 10News."
Local 54 has staged a dozen all-union rallies since the start of the dispute. The rallies demonstrate the solidarity among all local unions and their members to just "Turn Off 10News."
Local 54 has staged a dozen all-union rallies since the start of the dispute. The rallies demonstrate the solidarity among all local unions and their members to just "Turn Off 10News."

Local 54 has staged a dozen all-union rallies since the start of the dispute. The rallies demonstrate the solidarity among all local unions and their members to just "Turn Off 10News."
Local 54 has staged a dozen all-union rallies since the start of the dispute. The rallies demonstrate the solidarity among all local unions and their members to just "Turn Off 10News."
Local 54 has staged a dozen all-union rallies since the start of the dispute. The rallies demonstrate the solidarity among all local unions and their members to just "Turn Off 10News."
Local 54 has staged a dozen all-union rallies since the start of the dispute. The rallies demonstrate the solidarity among all local unions and their members to just "Turn Off 10News."
Local 54 has staged a dozen all-union rallies since the start of the dispute. The rallies demonstrate the solidarity among all local unions and their members to just "Turn Off 10News."

Local 54 has staged a dozen all-union rallies since the start of the dispute. The rallies demonstrate the solidarity among all local unions and their members to just "Turn Off 10News."
Local 54 has staged a dozen all-union rallies since the start of the dispute. The rallies demonstrate the solidarity among all local unions and their members to just "Turn Off 10News."
Local 54 has staged a dozen all-union rallies since the start of the dispute. The rallies demonstrate the solidarity among all local unions and their members to just "Turn Off 10News."
Local 54 has staged a dozen all-union rallies since the start of the dispute. The rallies demonstrate the solidarity among all local unions and their members to just "Turn Off 10News."
Local 54 has staged a dozen all-union rallies since the start of the dispute. The rallies demonstrate the solidarity among all local unions and their members to just "Turn Off 10News."

Local 54 has staged a dozen all-union rallies since the start of the dispute. The rallies demonstrate the solidarity among all local unions and their members to just "Turn Off 10News."
KGTV manager Mike Biltucci unlawfully videotapes a NABET-CWA rally. The station had to settle charges that it threatened and intimidated employees and interferred with their legal activities.
Local 54 members also attend rallies in support of other local unions. This one is in support of teachers, school employees and students.
Local 54 members also attend rallies in support of other local unions. This one is in support of the United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW).
Local 54 members also attend rallies in support of other local unions. This one is in support of the boycott of the Manchester Grand Hyatt by Unite Here.

Local 54 members also attend rallies in support of other local unions. This one is in support of Teamsters at the Union-Tribune.
Local 54 members also attend rallies in support of public issues. This is in support of health care reform.
Local 54 members attend a rally at the Convention Center to welcome new AFL-CIO president Richard Trumpka on his first trip to San Diego.

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Multimedia: 3rd Annual Cesar Chavez Day March

Videos

10NewsUnfair.com Spot; Confessions of a Union Buster; Employee Free Choice Act

act now

Since the start of mobilization:

• There have been over 600 days of handbilling

• Over 50,000 handbills have been distributed

• KGTV has issued over 175 memos attacking the Union

• 4 off-the-record meetings were held at the Union’s request.
KGTV managers leaked information from each of them

• 3 days of contract negotiations took place at the Union’s request.
The sole action from KGTV was to make their initial proposals worse

• The Union has spent about $150,000, most of it on advertising and supplies

• KGTV has spent an estimated $6 million, most of it on legal fees,
lost revenue and lost productivity

• 6 KGTV Managers have made a final exit

• NABET-CWA has been negotiating in good faith

• McGraw-Hill has been Union-busting