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...]
CWA Canada Locals
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...]
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...]
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...]
Ottawa extends financial lifeline to newspapers, journalism
Many of the country’s newspapers were pulled back from the brink with today’s announcement that federal wage subsidies will be extended to all businesses regardless of [Read more...]
News industry needs federal help right now: CWA Canada
CWA Canada has issued an urgent appeal to the federal government to provide immediate financial aid to the news industry, which is being devastated by the COVID-19 crisis. [Read more...]
CWA Canada stands up for workers amid SaltWire layoffs
CWA Canada says it will ensure that collective agreements and workers rights are respected as SaltWire Network announces plans to temporarily lay off 250 staff amid the [Read more...]
