KOMO 4 on-air staff are set to no longer be represented by their labor union — the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists — after a narrow vote last week.
Anchors and reporters at Sinclair Broadcast Group’s Seattle-area station voted 9-7 last Wednesday to remove their affiliation with SAG-AFTRA, following a decertification petition filed with the National Labor and Relations Board in July. The majority of the bargaining unit’s 22 employees had signed the petition to hold the vote, said Patrick Semmens, the vice president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, which represented the workers in the case.
The vote is expected to be certified by the NLRB this week, barring objections from SAG-AFTRA. SAG-AFTRA national declined to comment. The union’s Seattle chapter did not respond to requests for comment as of Wednesday…