IA’s Master Control Operations Supervisors, Tape Operators, Technical Directors and Associate Directors now answer the call “Let’s Go to the Video Tape” at Fox Sports
Employees of the Master Control Operations Unit of Fox Sports International voted overwhelmingly to ratify their first collective bargaining agreement with Fox Sports International on August 10, 2005 announced IATSE International President Thomas C. Short.
The contract is a first for the approximately 50-member unit of which broadcasts international sporting events and had been successfully organized by the IATSE this past October 2004. The term of the agreement is June 1, 2005 to May 31, 2008.
Provisions of the contract, which was negotiated by International Vice President Michael F. Miller, Jr. and Special Representative Ronald G. Kutak, include substantial increases in wages and improved working conditions as well as new benefit provisions for daily hires and maintained health and pension benefits for staff employees.