NBC union projects graphics on 30 Rock accusing leadership of stalling on contract [Video]

NBC’s digital employee union projected scathing messages onto 30 Rock Wednesday night, blasting company leadership for dragging its feet on a contract. 

NBC Digital NewsGuild, a collective bargaining unit of the NewsGuild of New York, called out NBC News executives for allegedly “unlawful behavior” by lighting up “breaking news” messages on the company’s flagship building in midtown Manhattan, 30 Rock. 

The NBC Digital NewsGuild represents reporters, editors, designers, video journalists, animators, social media strategists and editorial staff of NBC News Digital, who have been negotiating its first contract since the group unionized in 2019.

The projections specifically targeted NBCUniversal News Group Chairman Cesar Conde, as well as NBC News Editorial President Rebecca Blumenstein, Executive Vice President of Programming Janelle Rodriguez, Executive Vice President of News Catherine Kim and Executive Vice President of TODAY and Lifestyle Libby Leist for engaging in tactics that they say have violated labor laws, including layoffs of more …