Launch of Canadian guild for freelancers a baptism by fire
RACHEL SANDERS As if building a new association weren’t a daunting enough task, the Canadian Freelance Guild’s launch this spring was complicated by a global health [Read more...]
2020
CWA Canada condemns attacks on media workers covering unrest in U.S.
Statement by CWA Canada President Martin O’Hanlon: We have been watching with increasing concern, and shock, as many of our media colleagues in the [Read more...]
CWA Canada: Blaming unions for Postmedia job cuts ‘dishonest’
Postmedia CEO Andrew MacLeod was “being misleading at best” when he blamed unions for the latest round of staff cuts, CWA Canada President Martin O’Hanlon says. In a [Read more...]
CWA Canada, IFJ urge Trudeau to make tech giants share ad revenue
CWA Canada and the world’s largest journalist organization are appealing directly to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to make tech giants such as Facebook and Google share [Read more...]
Winners of memorial scholarships announced
Essays submitted by Rhiannon Hoffman and Natalie Capretta have been selected as the 2020 winners of the $1,000 John Belcarz & Dan Zeidler Memorial Scholarships. An [Read more...]
World Press Freedom Day message from CWA Canada President Martin O’Hanlon
We mark World Press Freedom Day this year in the most unusual of circumstances: a pandemic that has killed hundreds of thousands of people, crippled economies, and challenged [Read more...]
Media union Locals reject Postmedia pay cuts
Leaders of CWA Canada Locals at nine Postmedia dailies have rejected a company proposal for a temporary wage cut, saying they have “sacrificed enough.” They held [Read more...]
Postmedia pay cut would be ‘tough sell’ for unions
Leaders of CWA Canada Locals at newspapers in three provinces will hold a conference call tonight to decide their response to Postmedia’s moves to cut labour costs during [Read more...]
Union urges feds to do more to save media outlets
CWA Canada is working with other unions, publishers, and journalism advocates to step up pressure on the federal government to do more to save critically endangered media [Read more...]
Union hails expanded access to COVID-19 emergency benefit for media workers
CWA Canada is hailing today’s announcement that the emergency benefit program will now be extended to many precarious workers in the media industry. Martin O’Hanlon, [Read more...]
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