By Staff Reporters

PITTSBURGH (March 15, 2009) The Philadelphia Local has announced that employees at CBS3.com, Philadelphia's CBS3 web portal, voted overwhelmingly on March 11 to make AFTRA their collective bargaining representative.

Five newly AFTRA-covered employees will join the approximately 70 existing on and off-air AFTRA-covered news staff at KYW-TV CBS3, which include reporters, anchors, writers, and producers. AFTRA contracts cover on-air employees when they work on the web, but the CBS3.com employees are among the first website workers at a local owned-and-operated station to have voted to be covered by an AFTRA contract.