Many don't think that Sinclair buying the Tribune stations is a good idea.

You can now add the union to that mix. 

Politico writes that a union leader representing news employees at television stations across the country is threatening to lead a public campaign against the proposed Sinclair-Tribune merger, highlighting the job losses and decrease in local coverage he claims would result from the deal.

Though the conservative-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group has denied that the merger would have those effects, Dave Twedell, a business representative for the International Cinematographers Guild Local 600, says he hopes to rally the public against the deal and compel members of Congress to act.

Twedell pointed to places like Seattle, one of ten cities where both Sinclair and Tribune own stations, as potentially facing a drastic loss of local news coverage – and jobs -- through consolidations.

Twedell is scheduled on Monday to meet with Sinclair representatives for a session of collective bargaining for photojournalists at its station there, KOMO.

Unless Sinclair agrees to protect his members’ jobs, he said, he will immediately launch a nationwide publicity campaign.

“If they decline to make that commitment, we are going to make a very big noise about it,” Twedell said. Of his members, he added, “They are terribly concerned about the threat of their station being either dramatically reduced in scope or closed.”

This could get real ugly, real fast.

Stay tuned...