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Canadian Media Guild - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Canadian Media Guild (CMG) is a trade union for Canadian journalists who work for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Canadian Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, and TVOntario. On August 15, 2005, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation locked out its 5500 members in the Canadian Media Guild. The key point of contention was the broadcaster's insistence on more contract employees at the expense of full time positions. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canadian_Media_Guild   (108 words)

The National Online - The APEC Files   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) The Canadian Media Guild has filed a grievance over the 3-day suspension handed to reporter Terry Milewski on November 6, and is preparing to file a second grievance over the 15-day suspension Milewski got on November 18. CMG Vice-President (Toronto) Arnold Amber, who has handled the Milewski case for the Guild, cautions members against jumping to conclusions about the nature of the 3-day suspension. The Canadian Media Guild has refrained from discussing the issue because we have an obligation to keep confidential the details of internal disputes between any of our members and CBC management. www.tv.cbc.ca /national/pgminfo/apec/guild.html   (1280 words)

The Canadian Media Guild - St. John's Local   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) Talks between the Canadian Media Guild and CBC management went on until midnight Thursday on the two main issues in the lockout: employment status and workforce adjustment (layoff/recall). The Canadian Media Guild and the Corporation have agreed to return to the table tomorrow to begin preliminary talks on the unresolved issues... Dan Oldfield, the chief negotiator for the Canadian Media Guild, met with his counterpart Stephen Satchel of the CBC for five hours on Monday... cmgstjohns.ca /news.html   (793 words)

The Newspaper Guild - Guild Reporter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) Although the Canadian Media Guild was enormously supportive of technicians locked out last month by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., CEP vice president Peter Murdoch apparently couldn’t distinguish between his friends and his enemies. That the Canadian Media Guild has been able to negotiate good contracts without striking is a testimony to its ability to bargain and the strength of the power it wields. When Murdoch and others left The Newspaper Guild years ago to join the CEP, we in the Canadian Media Guild and other Newspaper Guild locals across the country decided to continue to remain part of an international union with solid roots in the broadcasting and newspaper industries. www.newsguild.org /gr/gr_display.php?storyID=618   (940 words)

TNG Canada: CBC sticks to demands for major concessions Guild members consistently produce creative, high-quality programming that is recognized around the world. The Guild believes a well-trained, positively motivated workforce is the way to adapt to an ever-changing industry and has presented proposals to achieve those goals. The Canadian Media Guild entered this round of bargaining to advance a vision of a progressive collective agreement that would enhance members' worklives, give them real career opportunities and ensure a future at the CBC. www.tngcanada.org /EN/news/2004/041018_cmg_barg.shtml   (475 words)

Canadian Communications Reports Along with the Canadian Media Guild, Our Public Airwaves also has the support of teachers' unions in Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia, as well as the Canadian Teachers' Federation, Democracy Watch and the Canadian Federation of Students, according to the executive director. The Media Guild and the CBC have filed a joint application to the Canada Industrial Relations Board to merge the two unions into one, and to separately merge the two French unions representing workers in Quebec and Moncton. The CEP is a broad-based Canadian union of 150,000 workers, including 20,000 media workers, some working at newspapers and private broadcasters as well as the CBC. 209.47.161.50 /articles/Decima/ccr030130.htm   (1538 words)

BECTU News - BBC slammed over Canadian dispute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) Lise Lareau, President of the Canadian Media Guild (CMG) which represents the locked-out workers, said: "The BBC runs the risk of losing its international status as an impartial and highly regarded news service by so openly being associated with one side in a dispute between CBC and its staff. CBC management have been accused by the Canadian Media Guild of demanding impossible concessions from the union as part of a pre-conceived plan to engineer a workforce that was "mostly temporary". BBC journalists in Canada and Canadian unions allege that the BBC is supplying additional material to CBC which is being used to replace regular news programmes and is thereby taking sides in the industrial dispute and undermining the rights of Canadian media workers. www.bectu.org.uk /news/gen/ng0226.html   (709 words)

Edited Evidence * HERI * Number 009 (Official Version)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) Canadian ownership and control rules for broadcasters have provided the necessary conditions to allow our entire content sector—script writers, artists, actors, directors, producers, distributors, and broadcast companies—to cause content to be created, produced, acquired, presented, and scheduled that reflects and promotes Canadian values, stories, and perspectives to our viewers. The quote is not from anybody in Canada or anybody in one of the countries that might be an exploiter of Canadian media; it's from the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Consider the 21 hours a week Canadians spend watching TV, which is probably the most powerful medium of all time and which probably has one of the biggest effects on how we figure out and feel who we are, what we think, what we remember, and what we hope for. www.parl.gc.ca /InfoComDoc/37/2/HERI/Meetings/Evidence/HERIEV09-E.HTM   (12288 words)

Arts News Canda: Archive of news and opinion on the recent CBC lockout Canadians from coast to coast to coast have come to rely on the CBC to provide fair and balanced coverage of national and international affairs and the genuine fear is that they may not see such programs again for a very long time. The CMG, which represents the 5,500 CBC employees who have been locked out since August 15, is urging the board to intervene to ensure a negotiated settlement as soon as possible to end the lockout that has crippled the public broadcaster. It also calls on the Canadian government to intervene to ensure the CBC negotiates fairly with the Canadian Media Guild to bring a quick conclusion to the dispute....In the United States, Britain and other European nations, as well as in key global news centres in other countries, union representatives were planning co-ordinated protests Monday. www.artsnews.ca /Archives/CBCLockout/CBCArchivePage.html   (13148 words)

Canadian Media Guild Saskatoon Branch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) Members of the Canadian Media Guild have voted 88.4% in favour of ratification of the new collective agreement. A total of 3514 Guild members from across the country cast ballots; of those, 3106 voted yes; 394 voted against the deal. The Canadian Media Guild has a fund to help members facing financial difficulties because of the lockout. cmgsaskatoon.ca   (289 words)

CBCUnlocked: Where Canadians connect Now that the CBC and the Canadian Media Guild (CMG) have reached an agreement-in-principle, the national information and entertainment website operated by locked-out CBC employees wraps up our five-week run with a special edition. After a lockout that has lasted 50 days, the CBC and Canadian Media Guild have reached an agreement in principle that includes a 9.5-per-cent cap on the number of contract workers the public broadcaster can hire. The breakthrough came close to a deadline on a news flout, Canadian Media Guild chief negotiator Arnold Amber said. www.cbcunlocked.com /artman/publish/article_585.shtml   (1184 words)

The Daily Planet - Welcome! Media law workshop by the Jack Webster Foundation and the Law Society of B.C. VANCOUVER, Oct. 31 /CNW/ - The Law Society of B.C. and the Jack Webster Foundation are pleased to present their fifth annual media law workshop and dinner. The Canadian Media Guild is disappointed that the CBC board has endorsed management's position during its first meeting since the lockout began on August 15. Canadians are not spending as much time listening to the radio as they once did, according to a new government report that was released on Friday. www.the-daily-planet.ca /content.php   (15873 words)

Striking back at CBC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) On the first day of their strike in Halifax, CEP members were joined on the picket line by members of the Canadian Media Guild, who refused to cross their picket line. The Canadian Media Guild represents 2,300 reporters, producers, TV anchors, and administrative staff. Guild workers at CBC will be taking a strike vote in early March and are likely to join the technical workers on the picket line. www.web.net /sworker/En/SW1999/303-12-cbc.html   (377 words)

Joe Hill for CBC Branch President That is why Location Executive Councils and the Presidents' Councils are vital to the strength of the Canadian Media Guild. The CMG and the CBC Branch must become familiar faces at the CRTC and the Heritage Committee. Canadian public broadcasting is facing an uncertain future. www3.sympatico.ca /joe.hill/e-index.html   (909 words)

actorsequity.org | news & events   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) Actors' Equity is joining the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) and the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), urging members to support the Canadian Media Guild, who have been locked-out by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) for almost four weeks. On August 15th, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) locked out all 5,500 of its employees, after the Canadian Media Guild, an affiliate of The Newspaper Guild-CWA, refused to agree to allow the public service broadcaster the right to contract out work on any production. The Canadian Media Guild sent this message to the AFL-CIO's Department of Professional Employees (DPE), which was endorsed and forwarded to all entertainment unions: "September 8 - 17 is the Toronto Film Festival, the premiere film festival in North America. www.actorsequity.org /TheatreNews/news2005/Sep8.SupportCanadianCMG.html   (292 words)

18- to 35-year olds in support of the Canadian Media Guild Although not every Canadian turns to the CBC for all their information and entertainment, every Canadian is affected by the labour dispute. Based in Ottawa, CBC KD is a nationwide grouping of 18- to 35- year-old listeners and viewers of CBC radio and television who seek the rapid and fair resolution of the labour strife that has disrupted their lives in many ways. Not only they are depriving Canadians of world-class information and entertainment, they are depriving me of the midnight snacks that I depend on to get me through the night," whimpered Joel over the rumble of hunger in his baked good-free stomach. cbckeydemo.blogspot.com   (1748 words)

CMG P.E.I.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) CMG P.E.I. The Big Easy/ Big Hurt/ Big Heart/ fundraiser comes to P.E.I. The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina continues to cause enormous havoc down south, sparking a worldwide response. CBC employees, members of the Canadian Media Guild, will be there to greet their long, but not so lost, friends. Under the auspices of The PEI International Shellfish Festival, The Canadian Red Cross, Canadian Media Guild and the PEI Music Awards Association. www.cmgpei.ca /shellfishhelp.html   (356 words)

CMG Prince Edward Island   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) CMG members spend the last day of the lockout preparing thank you cards for people who showed us support over the last eight weeks. Members of the CMG on P.E.I. will all be back at work on Tuesday. The Canadian Media Guild are maintaining a picket line will end at noon on Thursday, Oct. 6. cmgpei.ca   (349 words)

The CBC is Back   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) It is as philosophically independent of the Canadian government as is the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Post Office or Air Canada, the airline run by the Canadian government, claims to the contrary of "independence" notwithstanding. There is something truly horrific about the central government with its own radio and TV empire, and throwing such amounts of money at it that it pales into insignificance expenditures by its "private" counterparts and competitors, the latter of whom are heavily regulated by the self same government in any case. Canadian programming is also offered by CTV and Global thanks to a plethora of subsidies. boards.conservativelife.com /viewtopic.php?t=58854   (2957 words)

Response to letter from Lise Lareau, Canadian Media Guild In fact, I note from personal experience that very few CMG members are aware that they are members of a Washington-based union. He pointed out that you, uniquely among union leaders interviewed, were unconcerned about increasing US foreign investment in Canadian media. At a time when the issue of foreign ownership of Canadian media is moving to the front page in public policy, we are concerned that your union is rooted in the United States and that you are reported to be expressing such views on your members’ behalf. www.friends.ca /print/news/letters/letters11170301.asp   (485 words)

TNG Canada: The National Guild of Canadian Media, Manufacturing, Professional&Service Workers / CWA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) Osprey Media is laying off two-thirds of its classified advertising employees at The St. Catharines Standard and moving the jobs to a call centre in Sarnia. Today, the Canadian Media Guild and CBC management finalized the details on a protocol that allows the public broadcaster to return to full service by Tuesday, Oct. 11, the day most members will be returning to work. Negotiators for the Canadian Media Guild and CBC management toasted their agreement-in-principle this morning in a ceremony with Labour Minister Joe Fontana, moving 5,500 locked-out employees a big step closer to returning to work. www.tngcanada.org   (495 words)

TNG-CWA HomePage Guild, CWA take a long look at selves Following an overwhelmingly decisive vote of 3,106 to 394 ratifying a new contract with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, members of the Canadian Media Guild started streaming back to work Oct. 11, ending a nearly two-month lockout. Yet as jubilant as they were at returning to work, they did so with a newfound sense of their own value—and with distinctly less fuzzy feelings about their employer. www.newsguild.org   (357 words)

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the Canadian Media Guild finalize their Memorandum of Settlement Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the Canadian Media Guild finalize their Memorandum of Settlement OTTAWA, ONTARIO - The Honourable Joe Fontana, Minister of Labour and Housing is pleased to confirm that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and the Canadian Media Guild (CMG) parties have finalized an agreement and employees are scheduled to return to work on Tuesday, October 11, 2005. Minister Fontana is pleased to be able to assist the CBC and the CMG. news.gc.ca /cfmx/view/en/index.jsp?articleid=173019   (180 words)

CBC News: CBC, Canadian Media Guild reach memorandum of agreement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and its biggest union, the Canadian Media Guild, reached a memorandum of agreement early Monday morning. Guild spokesperson Karen Wirsig said details still had to be worked out. Federal Labour Minister Joe Fontana asked the CBC and the Guild to move their talks to Ottawa last week. www.cbc.ca /story/canada/national/2005/10/03/CBCLO20051003.html   (230 words)

CBCUnlocked: Where Canadians connect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) The Canadian Media Guild says total wages of the 5,500 locked-out employees come to about $4.8 million a week. CMG President Lise Lareau sought status for two Guild representatives to address the board. The CMG last month urged the government to withhold the grants during the lockout, but so far nothing has happened. www.cbcunlocked.ca /artman/publish/features/article_377.shtml   (2178 words)

Communications Workers of America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) In a national union representation election, workers at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation voted decisively for representation by the Canadian Media Guild, a local union of The Newspaper Guild/Canada, CWA, reported TNG-CWA President Linda Foley. By a 59 percent vote, the CBC workers, in production, administrative, technical and trades positions, consolidated their strength into one union, Previously, the Canadian Media Guild represented about 3,800 workers at the CBC, with another 1,400 workers represented by the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers union. Canadian Media Guild President Lise Lareau said employees recognized CMG's track record at CBC, adding that the vote "gives us good ground to build a bigger and stronger union." www.cwa-union.org /news/WhatsNew.asp?ID=376   (220 words)

Arts News Canada: Media and Broadcasting News After some positive momentum, the CMG squandered an opportunity to move closer to an agreement....While the parties have been negotiating for 16 months, the CMG has now chosen to raise new issues, such as additional payments and rules for overtime. The organization is also urging Canadians to contact the CBC and tell them it is a shameful use of taxpayers' dollars....But the Toronto-based Saywell believes her film is timely, balanced and important. Canadian content rules "for the most part, serve to play Canadian superstars signed in America," Schuller told the news conference at Revival, a west-end Toronto nightclub. www.artsnews.ca /Archives/2005Q3/2005Q3Media.html   (13029 words)

Whitehorse Star Online The Canadian Broadcasting Corp.’s unionized technical staff and journalists have been voting Wednesday and today on whether to grant their union, the Canadian Media Guild, a strike mandate. As of Aug. 14, the CBC and the Canadian Media Guild will be in a position where they will be able to start labour action that could be a strike or a lockout. The Canadian Media Guild began representing both groups in January 2004. www.whitehorsestar.com /auth.php?r=38822   (804 words)

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