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CWA Canada members at BuzzFeed ratify first collective agreement

2021-10-15 // 0 Comments

Staff at BuzzFeed Canada have voted 87.5-per-cent in favour of ratifying their first collective agreement, which was more than two years in the making. The three-year deal [Read more...]

Sault Star staff ratify deal with wage gains

2021-10-06 // 0 Comments

Workers at The Sault Star have ratified a new collective agreement that gives them wage gains after many years of zero or minuscule increases. The 12 members of CWA Canada [Read more...]

Postmedia printing plant workers ratify first contract

2021-09-27 // 0 Comments

The 71 workers at a Postmedia printing plant in Toronto have ratified a first contract that gives them major gains in wages and sick leave. The online vote on Saturday to [Read more...]

Labour Day message from CWA Canada President Martin O’Hanlon

2021-09-03 // 0 Comments

Dear fellow CWA Canada members, For the second year in a row, we are not able to march this Labour Day, but our voices will be as loud as ever. As we emerge from the [Read more...]

Winners of Belcarz-Zeidler scholarships announced

2021-04-30 // 0 Comments

This year’s winners of the $1,000 John Belcarz & Dan Zeidler Memorial Scholarships, along with one Honourable Mention, have been announced. Like last year, all three [Read more...]

Second City comedy educators in U.S. score huge win in pro-union vote

2021-04-17 // 0 Comments

Hundreds of Second City instructors in two American cities have joined their Canadian colleagues in scoring stunning victories in a cross-border organizing effort amid a [Read more...]

Remote work brings privacy issues closer to home

2021-03-23 // 0 Comments

NADINE ROBINSON It’s a normal day for Employee X. They message a source on a work laptop through their personal social media account (because there is no work account) and [Read more...]

CWA Canada wins certification vote to represent Second City comedy educators

2021-02-25 // 0 Comments

The more than 100 comedy educators who work for The Second City in Toronto are now officially unionized with CWA Canada. The Ontario Labour Relations Board said results of a [Read more...]

HuffPost Canada staff file to unionize

2021-02-23 // 1 Comment

An overwhelming majority of the 23 workers who provide Canadian content for international media website HuffPost have signed union cards with CWA Canada, which filed today [Read more...]

Webinar assists in jump from journalism

2020-11-20 // 0 Comments

It’s no secret that the number of places to practise journalism has been on the decline for years. Whether it’s newsroom numbers withering due to media owners’ [Read more...]