CBS News staffers vote to strike

Cory Bergman November 19th, 2007

With 81 percent of the vote, WGA East members of CBS News have voted to strike. The 300 or so employees work as writers, assignment editors, desk assistants and graphic designers for the CBS network as well as owned-and-operated stations in New York, LA, Chicago and DC. The group has been without a contract for two years. Now the strike has to be approved by the negotiating committee and the WGA before it can take place. CBS News, meanwhile, has said that a strike would not interrupt its broadcasts.