ABC and the union that oversees many of its editorial and tech employees have finally agreed to a new contract - literally after many many months of negotiating. This comes in the immediate wake of a new deal between the newswriters of CBS and the Writers Guild.
Here's the brief statement from ABC: "ABC and the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians Sector of the Communications Workers of America today ratified a new four-year contract covering about 1,100 staff employees and several thousand daily hire employees represented by the union at the ABC Television Network and four ABC owned stations. The contract is effective January 12, 2008."
The deal covers (among other stations) Ch. 7 here as well as the network.