Charter Cable and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 3 members in the city of New York have been fighting for more than a year now. The number two cable company’s disagreement with the almost 2000 New York City Union tech workers doesn’t look to be settled any time soon.
IBEW Local 3 says Charter Communications (Cable and Internet provider) is trying to take back the benefits they already enjoy. Benefits like overtime and holiday pay are in limbo for the workers that were acquired when Charter purchased Time Warner Cable a few years back. The union workers want to keep the same benefits they have had since before the purchase. For their part, Charter Communications says the New York employees should be happy with the pay increase Charter is offering.
It seems that Cable, Internet and telephone companies are often in negotiations with their workers. AT&T, Frontier and other companies have recently been in strikes, negotiations or just settled them.
At the same time, Charter Cable and Internet wants to renew the New York City cable franchise it got from the Time Warner Cable acquisition. Charter’s CEO Tom Rutledge got almost $100 million in pay and other benefits from the company in 2016.
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