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The news crew was filming a story about robberies in the West Town community that was slated to run on the morning news

A Chicago television news crew has been robbed at gunpoint while they were reporting on a string of robberies. Spanish-language station Univision Chicago says a reporter and photographer were filming early Monday in Chicago’s West Town neighborhood. They were robbed by three masked men brandishing firearms, who took their television camera and other items. It was the second robbery this month involving a Chicago news crew. WLS-TV says one of its photographers was assaulted and robbed on Au...

The news crew was filming a story about robberies in the West Town community that was slated to run on the morning news

A Chicago television news crew reporting on a string of robberies ended up robbed themselves after they were accosted at gunpoint by three armed men wearing ski masks.

ADVERTISEMENT Ore. Broadcaster Urges 9th Circ. To Reverse Bargaining Order Law360 (May 3, 2021, 3:26 PM EDT) -- An Oregon federal judge threatened to upset the traditional test for preliminary injunctions and defied U.S. Supreme Court precedent with an order requiring a broadcaster to bargain with a broadcast workers union, the broadcaster told the Ninth Circuit. In a brief filed Friday, Nexstar Broadcasting Inc. asked the Ninth Circuit to reverse the injunction U.S. District Judge Michael Mos...

The National Labor Relations Board urged the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday to reject a television station operator's bid to pause an order requiring it to recognize and bargain with a broadcast workers' union, arguing the stay would let the company benefit from violating federal labor law.

Burton White, of Tigard, a retired union official, labor educator, and mediator, passed away Feb. 14 of complications following a stroke. He was 90. White was director of labor relations for the Oregon Nurses Association from 1979 to 1985. Prior to that, from 1969-75, he was director of economic and general welfare for the California Nurses Association. He started working as an arbitrator and mediator in 1988. He was the first executive director of Partners in Construction Cooperation (PICC), ...

Biden Labor Purge Sparks Legal Challenge Getty Images Graham Piro • February 22, 2021 4:59 am SHARE An Oregon worker is challenging President Joe Bidens day one purge of Trump appointees from a federal agency, arguing that the administration is shielding a major union accused of violating labor law. Jeremy Brown accused the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians Local 51 of illegally siphoning donations from his paycheck, prompting an investigation from the Nationa...

A National Right to Work Foundation-represented cameraman invoked Shakespeare to dispute a union's allegation that his counsel ignored his best interests by arguing acting National Labor Relations Board prosecutor Peter Sung Ohr can't drop a challenge to an agency judge's ruling in a fee dispute.