CWA Canada • The Media Union

Media workers learn how to prevent, deal with attacks from doxxers

2020-10-21 // 0 Comments

More than three dozen unionized media workers logged in to an online workshop recently to learn how to protect themselves against the scourge of doxxing and what to do if [Read more...]

From radical idea to Indigenous gem

2020-09-24 // 0 Comments

Canada's 'other' national broadcaster deserves praise [Read more...]

Labour Day message from CWA Canada President Martin O’Hanlon

2020-09-04 // 0 Comments

Dear fellow CWA Canada members, For the first time in memory, we will not be marching this Labour Day. But we will not be silent. As we mourn our fellow media workers and the [Read more...]

Media union says Canada denying entry to Danish journalist ‘troubling, unacceptable’

2020-08-25 // 0 Comments

CWA Canada is calling a decision by border officials to deny entry to a Danish journalist “troubling” and “unacceptable” and wants Public Safety Minister Bill Blair [Read more...]

CAJ: Alberta Press Gallery has a duty and a right to determine access

2020-08-19 // 0 Comments

TORONTO, Aug. 18, 2020 /CNW/ — This past Sunday, the national board of the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) gathered for a regular meeting. One of our main agenda [Read more...]

CWA Canada asks OPP to retract threat, apologize to CBC reporter

2020-08-05 // 1 Comment

Aug. 4, 2020 Commissioner Thomas Carrique Ontario Provincial Police Dear Commissioner Carrique, I am writing on behalf of CWA Canada, the country’s only all-media union, to [Read more...]

Board approves union certification for Canadaland staff

2020-07-29 // 0 Comments

TORONTO – Staff at independent podcast network and news organization Canadaland are now officially unionized after the Canada Industrial Relations Board approved an [Read more...]

Locals’ campaigns emphasize importance of journalists, local news

2020-07-11 // 0 Comments

Two CWA Canada Locals had a message they needed to get out to their communities struggling with a public health crisis so they turned to advertising to do just that. [Read more...]

Postmedia printing plant’s 80 workers officially unionized

2020-07-02 // 0 Comments

TORONTO – The 80 workers at Postmedia’s printing plant in Toronto are now officially unionized after a large majority — 48 to 18 — voted to join the Canadian Media [Read more...]

Canadaland staff file to unionize

2020-06-25 // 4 Comments

TORONTO – Staff at Canadaland, an independent podcast network and news organization, have officially filed for union certification. Media union CWA Canada filed today with [Read more...]

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