CWA Canada stands up for workers amid SaltWire layoffs
CWA Canada says it will ensure that collective agreements and workers rights are respected as SaltWire Network announces plans to temporarily lay off 250 staff amid the [Read more...]
Halifax Typographical Union
AFTER 565 DAYS, IT’S FINALLY OVER
Halifax members vote 94% to ratify deal, end strike at Herald It was an endurance test of almost 19 months, but the Halifax Typographical Union stood its ground on the key [Read more...]
Striking journalists ‘still in shock’ at $40,000 donation
DEBORAH RICHMOND | Web Editor A wave of exhilaration has swept through social media with news of a stunning $40,000 donation to striking members of CWA Canada’s Halifax [Read more...]
Striking Halifax journalists’ awards nominations double Herald’s
Local Xpress, the news site run by striking Chronicle Herald staff, has been nominated for six Atlantic Journalism Awards — twice as many as Nova Scotia’s “paper of [Read more...]
Struck Herald’s shared delivery deal rankles pro-union islanders
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...]
‘Hard times’: On strike 13 months, a daughter follows in her dad’s footsteps
It was 1957 when 400 union members, my dad among them, walked off the job at the gypsum quarry just outside Windsor. Six decades later, I've learned what it was like to be in his shoes as I walk the picket line at The Chronicle Herald. [Read more...]
Talks between Herald, striking staff break down
NEWS RELEASE HALIFAX — Talks between 55 on-strike Chronicle Herald newsroom workers and the company broke down on Thursday over seniority, jurisdiction and a handful of [Read more...]
On strike for one year: ‘We are not going to cave in’
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...]
Halifax Strike
Newsroom members of the Halifax Typographical Union went on a defensive strike Jan. 23, 2016, against The Chronicle Herald. It lasted almost 19 months, but in the end, the HTU stood its ground on job security. [Read more...]
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