Fox TV Station Resumes Airing Union’s Ad

KTTV-TV Fox Channel 11 resumed airing a paid advertisement by a large county workers’ union, a day after it pulled the 60-second spot and demanded the union prove its claim that some members do not earn a decent wage. A statement from the station said, “Now that we have received the verification that we requested in August of the factual statements made in the spot, we have accepted the commercial for broadcast.” However, spokesman Bart Deiner of the Service Employees International Union, Local 660, said the union had not provided any new information to the station. The ad is part of a $750,000 radio and TV campaign to build public sympathy for union members as a strike deadline nears. A contract covering the local’s 47,000 members, including social workers, librarians, maintenance workers and nurses, expires Sept. 30.