Newspaper Industry

Contracts, outcry reduce forced layoffs at some Postmedia papers

2023-03-03 // 5 Comments

DEBORAH RICHMOND | CWA Canada Web Editor UPDATED 2023-03-21 CWA Canada members who work at nine Postmedia newspapers are still reeling from the latest cost-cutting measures [Read more...]

CWA Canada welcomes inquiry into Chronicle Herald strike

2017-07-13 // 0 Comments

HALIFAX – CWA Canada, which represents striking newsroom workers at the Halifax Chronicle Herald, welcomes the news that the Nova Scotia government has called an industrial [Read more...]

Any funding for newspapers must go to journalism, not executive bonuses

2017-06-16 // 1 Comment

OTTAWA – CWA Canada, the country’s only all-media union, is calling on the federal government to ensure that any subsidies for newspapers go to creating journalism [Read more...]

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...]

‘Struggling’ Herald on buying spree with strike in 15th month

2017-04-13 // 1 Comment

HALIFAX – The owners of The Chronicle Herald have struck a deal to expand what they have long described as a business that was struggling to stay alive. Transcontinental [Read more...]

‘Hard times’: On strike 13 months, a daughter follows in her dad’s footsteps

2017-03-17 // 0 Comments

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...]

Union asks for inquiry into 13-month Halifax strike

2017-02-22 // 0 Comments

NEWS RELEASE HALIFAX – It’s time for the provincial government to step in and do something about the 13-month strike by 55 newsroom employees at The Chronicle Herald, [Read more...]

Talks between Herald, striking staff break down

2017-02-09 // 0 Comments

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...]

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...]

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...]