Halifax

Postmedia announces Saltwire layoffs; union will enforce seniority and severance obligations

2024-08-29 // 0 Comments

Postmedia has wasted no time in cutting jobs as it takes control of Saltwire Network Inc., continuing it’s long sorry tradition of slashing local media. The company [Read more...]

Postmedia-Saltwire deal: Media Union CWA Canada will protect members and local journalism

2024-07-27 // 0 Comments

CWA Canada and the Halifax Typographical Union (CWA Canada Local 30130) are working to protect our members and local journalism as Postmedia moves to buy Saltwire’s [Read more...]

CWA Canada will fight for members at Saltwire

2024-03-11 // 0 Comments

CWA Canada President Carmel Smyth says the union will be monitoring the situation closely after Saltwire Network Inc. announced today that it is seeking creditor protection. [Read more...]

Guardian & Journal Pioneer Workers File to Unionize in P.E.I.

2023-10-25 // 0 Comments

Workers at The Guardian and Journal Pioneer newspapers in P.E.I. have filed for union certification The Halifax Typographical Union (CWA Canada Local 30130) filed today [Read more...]

AFTER 565 DAYS, IT’S FINALLY OVER

2017-08-10 // 1 Comment

Halifax members vote 94% to ratify deal, end strike at Herald It was an endurance test of almost 19 months, but the Halifax Typographical Union stood its ground on the key [Read more...]

Tentative deal reached in Chronicle Herald strike

2017-08-05 // 0 Comments

Joint Media Statement HTU Strike at The Chronicle Herald (August 5, 2017 / HALIFAX) – After two days of mediation over the Natal Day long weekend, The Chronicle Herald and [Read more...]

CWA Canada welcomes inquiry into Chronicle Herald strike

2017-07-13 // 0 Comments

HALIFAX – CWA Canada, which represents striking newsroom workers at the Halifax Chronicle Herald, welcomes the news that the Nova Scotia government has called an industrial [Read more...]

Striking journalists ‘still in shock’ at $40,000 donation

2017-04-28 // 0 Comments

DEBORAH RICHMOND | Web Editor A wave of exhilaration has swept through social media with news of a stunning $40,000 donation to striking members of CWA Canada’s Halifax [Read more...]

‘Struggling’ Herald on buying spree with strike in 15th month

2017-04-13 // 1 Comment

HALIFAX – The owners of The Chronicle Herald have struck a deal to expand what they have long described as a business that was struggling to stay alive. Transcontinental [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...]