CNN to Pay $70 Million to Settle Long-Running Labor Dispute (1)

CNN agreed to pay more than $70 million to settle a 15-year-old labor dispute with camera operators who accused the cable news company of canceling their contract to avoid dealing with the workers’ union, Bloomberg Law has learned.

The tentative agreement would put to bed a long-running dispute between CNN and a group of more than 200 video camera operators, broadcast engineers, and other technicians staffed by a separate video services company. Those workers, for the network’s Washington, D.C., and New York bureaus, say the company laid them off without bargaining with their union and refused to hire some of ...