CWA Canada • The Media Union

Media union welcomes federal aid for news industry, cautions about possible loophole

2019-03-19 // 0 Comments

OTTAWA — CWA Canada, the country’s only all-media union, welcomes the measures in today’s federal budget to help the news industry, but worries a possible loophole [Read more...]

CWA Canada part of global effort by municipalities to tackle precarity

2019-03-04 // 0 Comments

CWA Canada had two representatives at the Decent Work City conference in Seoul, where they shared what the media union is doing to address precarious work and to give freelancers some bargaining clout. [Read more...]

Spring election sees two candidates vying for presidency of NewsGuild-CWA

2019-02-28 // 1 Comment

An activist with a new Local has emerged as challenger for leadership of The NewsGuild (TNG) that will be decided in a spring election in which all members of CWA Canada are [Read more...]

Remaining staff struggle to cope after layoffs at Ottawa Citizen, Canadian Press

2019-02-26 // 1 Comment

CWA Canada members at two news operations that are laying off yet more staff are struggling to cope with the grim realities of their decimated workplaces. Postmedia has [Read more...]

BuzzFeed Canada staff file to unionize

2019-02-12 // 4 Comments

TORONTO – Canadian staff at digital media company BuzzFeed have officially filed for union certification. The Canadian Media Guild (CMG), media union CWA Canada’s biggest [Read more...]

IATSE joins forces with CWA Canada in fight for better working conditions for factual / reality TV workers

2019-01-29 // 4 Comments

TORONTO — Two of Canada’s top media and entertainment unions announced an innovative partnership today to improve working conditions and organize workers in factual / [Read more...]

Members at Sault Star make gains in five-year deal

2019-01-18 // 1 Comment

It took more than two years of persistence, but the unionized staff at the daily newspaper in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., have a new collective agreement with Postmedia [Read more...]

CWA Canada renews call for Turkey to cease attacks on freedom of expression

2019-01-11 // 0 Comments

Video produced by the Committee to Protect Journalists, which tracks the jailing of media workers in Turkey. With yet another journalist being found guilty of [Read more...]

Media union hails Godfrey’s step down as Postmedia CEO

2019-01-10 // 2 Comments

Media union CWA Canada, which represents staff at several Postmedia newspapers, welcomes the announcement that Paul Godfrey is stepping down as CEO. “It’s just a shame [Read more...]

2019: The Fight for Press Freedom

2019-01-02 // 0 Comments

A New Year’s message from CWA Canada President Martin O’Hanlon [Read more...]

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