After two years without a contract, the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians-Communications Workers of America (NABET-CWA) has reached a tentative agreement with the American Broadcasting System (ABC) on a four-year contract. The last contract between NABET-CWA and ABC expired on March 31, 2011. James C. Joyce, president of NABET-CWA and head of the bargaining committee, unanimously recommended to union members that they ratify the contract.

Remember the ABC?

Lots of us do. It’s the Virginia-based Associated Builders and Contractors, a trade association that has spent 60-plus years pushing its right-wing ideological vision of a construction industry with no unions—and construction workers with low wages and few benefits.