The union representing production assistants is protesting members on Chicago Med and Chicago Fire allegedly losing guaranteed work hours after they ratified labor contracts. LiUNA Local 724, the Burbank-based union that represents dozens of production assistants on the NBC shows, on Wednesday erected banners and a Scabby the Rat inflatable in front of two production locations amid the labor dispute. According to the union, the productions had previously guaranteed production assistants 12- and 14-hour days, which provided the workers with overtime pay in addition to their $19.93 hourly wages. But after the production assistants unions…
