Postmedia

Windsor Star workers get new contract, fight off Postmedia’s concession demands

May 7, 2018 // 0 Comments

Workers at the Windsor Star, who successfully fought off demands for major concessions, have voted to accept a new contract, setting the stage for deals at other Postmedia [Read more...]

National Post newsroom staff lose bid to unionize by one vote

April 24, 2018 // 0 Comments

National Post newsroom staff in Toronto and Ottawa have narrowly lost their bid to unionize in order to fend off predations by Postmedia, the newspaper’s owner. CWA Canada [Read more...]

CWA Canada hails Competition Bureau raid of Postmedia-Torstar, says feds should block newspaper swap deals

March 14, 2018 // 1 Comment

CWA Canada welcomes a federal investigation into November’s newspaper swap-and-close deal between Postmedia and Torstar, but worries it comes far too late to fix the damage [Read more...]

Third Local responds to Postmedia demands with strong strike vote

February 6, 2018 // 3 Comments

Postmedia was hit with a mid-winter blast from a third CWA Canada Local to respond to concessionary demands with a near-unanimous strike vote. More than 100 members of the [Read more...]

Ruling on National Post union not expected until new year

December 11, 2017 // 2 Comments

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...]

CWA Canada Locals push back on Postmedia demands

December 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

Postmedia’s relentless gutting of its newspapers, which has in some cases turned journalists into janitors at the end of their shifts, is being met with defiance at several [Read more...]

Closure of 36 newspapers ‘dark day for local journalism’

November 27, 2017 // 1 Comment

A deal between Postmedia and TorStar to swap a total of 41 daily and weekly newspapers then shut most of them down is a “dark day for local journalism,” says CWA Canada [Read more...]

Postmedia-TorStar deal is ‘deathblow’ to local news coverage, competition

November 27, 2017 // 1 Comment

OTTAWA – CWA Canada, the country’s only all-media union, is calling on the federal government to take urgent action to save local news coverage in the wake of the [Read more...]

Board hearing on National Post union vote set for Oct. 11

October 2, 2017 // 2 Comments

TORONTO – A majority of newsroom staff at the National Post have voted to join media union CWA Canada, but the final vote result will have to wait until after a hearing is [Read more...]

National Post newsroom staff file to unionize

September 22, 2017 // 2 Comments

TORONTO — Newsroom staff at the National Post have officially filed for union certification after a strong majority of workers signed union cards. CWA Canada, the [Read more...]