Newspaper Industry

Scythe-wielding Postmedia ends talks at Ottawa Citizen, seeks conciliation

2017-04-21 // 2 Comments

Postmedia abruptly ended three days of bargaining Thursday with the Ottawa Newspaper Guild, saying it would seek conciliation because talks were going nowhere. ONG President [Read more...]

Postmedia losing a third executive who received hefty retention bonus

2017-04-03 // 0 Comments

SUSAN KRASHINSKY ROBERTSON | The Globe and Mail A third senior executive at Postmedia Network Canada Corp., who is part of a group awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars [Read more...]

Inside the Ugly Unravelling at the Vancouver Sun and Province

2017-04-03 // 0 Comments

DAVID BEERS | The Tyee It’s been a brutal three weeks of dread, tears, and colleagues suddenly forced to see each other as threats to their own jobs. That’s the picture [Read more...]

Struck Herald’s shared delivery deal rankles pro-union islanders

2017-03-28 // 0 Comments

A shared delivery deal between the owners of the Cape Breton Post and The Chronicle Herald has put members of two CWA Canada Locals in an uncomfortable position and riled [Read more...]

Postmedia warned against bringing non-union cuts to bargaining table

2017-03-09 // 1 Comment

Postmedia has signalled that significant cuts to benefits it is imposing on non-union staff are likely to show up at the bargaining table. The debt-burdened company issued a [Read more...]

Feds must take ‘urgent’ action on news industry report

2017-01-26 // 0 Comments

OTTAWA – CWA Canada, the country’s only all-media union, is calling on the federal government to take urgent action in response to today’s independent report on [Read more...]

On strike for one year: ‘We are not going to cave in’

2017-01-24 // 0 Comments

Hundreds of supporters and labour activists turned out for province-wide protests Monday as the strike by Chronicle Herald newsroom workers hit the one-year mark. [Read more...]

Postmedia must rescind layoffs, use exec bonuses to save jobs

2017-01-24 // 0 Comments

OTTAWA – CWA Canada, the country’s only all-media union, is demanding that Postmedia rescind today’s layoff notices along with the big bonuses it paid top [Read more...]

Newspaper Industry

2017-01-02 // 0 Comments

Canadian newspapers might be in decline, but they are still the largest source of journalism in this country. [Read more...]