Labour Issues

Labour Reporting Award finalists reveal wide range of workplace woes

2018-04-13 // 0 Comments

UPDATE: May 5, 2018 — The CWA Canada / CAJ Labour Reporting Award went to Toronto Star team for Undercover in Temp Nation From trauma on the front lines of the [Read more...]

CWA Canada media union statement on International Women’s Day 2018

2018-03-08 // 0 Comments

On this day, we commemorate more than 100 years of struggle for women’s rights and pledge to keep up the fight for equality, starting with two new initiatives. It’s hard [Read more...]

CLC tabloid features pharmacare campaign, minimum wages

2017-08-31 // 0 Comments

Check out the CLC’s Labour Day insert in today’s edition of the free Metro newspaper across Canada. (Or you can click on the link above and read it in PDF format.) [Read more...]

Where are all the Canadian reality TV shows going?

2017-07-07 // 0 Comments

LISE LAREAU | Canadian Media Guild Bit by bit, reality and factual TV shows are disappearing for the upcoming season. It appears to be happening quietly – even by [Read more...]

Ontario could end labour law limbo for factual TV workers

2017-05-17 // 0 Comments

LISE LAREAU | Canadian Media Guild The signals are good. Early reports indicate that the Ontario government’s Changing Workplaces Review will not be a waste of [Read more...]

Alberta publisher leaves freelance content creators shivering through winter — hire now; pay much, much later

2017-02-23 // 0 Comments

NEWS RELEASE Venture Publishing Inc. of Edmonton and its CEO Ruth Kelly have developed a disturbing business model when it comes to paying the freelance contributors hired to [Read more...]

Legislation & Regulations

2017-01-02 // 0 Comments

A compendium of articles about bills, laws and regulations that have an impact on workers, organized labour, unions and journalism. [Read more...]

CWA Canada urges withdrawal of pensions Bill C-27

2016-11-17 // 0 Comments

The Hon. Bill Morneau, P.C., M.P. Minister of Finance House of Commons Ottawa, ON, K1A 0A6 Dear Minister: I am writing on behalf of CWA Canada, the country’s only all-media [Read more...]

PM Trudeau hits reset button with labour movement

2016-11-10 // 0 Comments

CLC's Hassan Yussuff and PM Justin Trudeau

CWA Canada President Martin O’Hanlon was among a gathering of union leaders who heard from Justin Trudeau this morning that he is hitting the reset button on the federal [Read more...]

TPP Day of Action highlights threat to free expression

2016-09-14 // 0 Comments

By Errol Salamon CWA Canada has organized a Day of Action against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which poses a particular threat to freedom of expression. An academic [Read more...]