BuzzFeed Canada staff file to unionize
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...]
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IATSE joins forces with CWA Canada in fight for better working conditions for factual / reality TV workers
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...]
CWA Canada renews call for Turkey to cease attacks on freedom of expression
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...]
Senators assessing human rights progress hear press freedom under serious threat
Statement by CWA Canada President Martin O’Hanlon on behalf of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) to the Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights: Thank you [Read more...]
Defenders of press freedom, including CWA Canada, call on PM Trudeau to do better
The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, P.C., M.P.
Prime Minister of Canada
Langevin Block
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2 Dear Prime Minister Trudeau, World Press Freedom [Read more...]
Statement by CWA Canada President Martin O’Hanlon on World Press Freedom Day
Today, we honour our colleagues around the globe who are fighting for a free press, truth, and democracy, and we commit to redouble our efforts to defend freedom of [Read more...]
Labour Reporting Award finalists reveal wide range of workplace woes
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...]
Federal budget measures are ‘good start’ to help news industry: CWA Canada
OTTAWA – CWA Canada, the country’s only all-media union, applauds the federal government’s announcement today that it will spend $50 million over five years to support [Read more...]
Ruling on National Post union not expected until new year
National Post newsroom staff in Toronto and Ottawa are on tenterhooks awaiting a labour board decision that will determine whether they will become members of CWA Canada. A [Read more...]
‘Arnold always did what was right’
Message from CWA Canada President Martin O’Hanlon to the Arnold Amber Memorial Service: Arnold. So much to say. You could talk for three hours about his life and [Read more...]
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