After a long battle with management at WSNS-TV.  all employees have unionized at Telemundo Chicago, well, except for the managers. 

The station’s Producers are the latest group to join a union. Producers at Telemundo Chicago voted in favor of joining NABET unionizing in late March.

They join the on-air personalities who voted in favor of unionizing (Sag-aftra union) on January 1st, 2023. 

The Editor and Photographers have been union for the last decade. 

Sources tell FTVLive that WSNS GM, Kevin Cross, had a one-on-one meeting with producers hoping to stop them from unionizing. 

It didn’t work.

Some on-air talent got big pay bumps after voting in the union as they were underpaid for the Chicago market.

The insider points to news management as the reason why many felt compelled to join a union.