March 2017

Members get rare chance to oppose bill that threatens pensions

2017-03-31 // 0 Comments

The retirement security of a majority of CWA Canada members — past and present — is threatened by proposed amendments to federal pension legislation. However, they have a [Read more...]

Critics say Trump NAFTA replacement too similar to TPP

2017-03-31 // 0 Comments

ADAM BEHSUDI | Politico President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to bring sweeping changes to the “terrible” North American Free Trade Agreement just got a dose of [Read more...]

Striking Halifax journalists’ awards nominations double Herald’s

2017-03-29 // 0 Comments

Local Xpress story about Atlantic Journalism Awards nominations

Local Xpress, the news site run by striking Chronicle Herald staff, has been nominated for six Atlantic Journalism Awards — twice as many as Nova Scotia’s “paper of [Read more...]

Struck Herald’s shared delivery deal rankles pro-union islanders

2017-03-28 // 0 Comments

A shared delivery deal between the owners of the Cape Breton Post and The Chronicle Herald has put members of two CWA Canada Locals in an uncomfortable position and riled [Read more...]

Dozens of CWA Canada members up for CAJ awards

2017-03-24 // 0 Comments

UPDATE: May 1, 2017 — The CWA Canada / CAJ Labour Reporting Award went to Min Sook Lee of TVO for Migrant Dreams Dozens of CWA Canada members are among the finalists [Read more...]

Ruling against VICE reporter ‘bad news for journalism’

2017-03-22 // 3 Comments

A ruling today by the Ontario Court of Appeal that a VICE Media reporter must hand over his notes to the RCMP is “bad news for journalism and for democracy,” said CWA [Read more...]

‘Hard times’: On strike 13 months, a daughter follows in her dad’s footsteps

2017-03-17 // 0 Comments

It was 1957 when 400 union members, my dad among them, walked off the job at the gypsum quarry just outside Windsor. Six decades later, I've learned what it was like to be in his shoes as I walk the picket line at The Chronicle Herald. [Read more...]

Postmedia warned against bringing non-union cuts to bargaining table

2017-03-09 // 1 Comment

Postmedia has signalled that significant cuts to benefits it is imposing on non-union staff are likely to show up at the bargaining table. The debt-burdened company issued a [Read more...]