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DALLAS MORNING NEWS: CAN UNIONS AND BIG BUSINESS BE FRIENDS?

Written on Oct, 02, 2014 by in | Leave a comment

Source: dallasnews.com Mitchell Schnurman, a columnist for The Dallas Morning News, challenges the “conventional wisdom about unions and big business.” On the heels of CWA’s successful campaign to organize American Airlines’ passenger service agents, Schnurman looks at AT&T’s potential merger with Direct TV.(*) He writes:(*) Many believe that unions are a drag on business because they drive up costs, resist change and …

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CBC’s effort to uncover bodies in an alleged 58-year-old triple murder

Written on Oct, 02, 2014 by in | Leave a comment

Source: poynter.org On Wednesday, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s flagship evening newscast dedicated 15-and-a-half minutes to a single jaw-dropping story.  It is the story of a horror that a woman said she witnessed 58 years ago and spent decades trying to get someone to care. Three years ago, my church pastor called to say he knew a woman who desperately needed a journalist …

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Black Press buys 2 Hawaii dailies and several Washington papers from Stephens Media

Written on Oct, 02, 2014 by in | Leave a comment

Source: ca.news.yahoo.com By Cathy Bussewitz, The Associated Press HONOLULU, Hawaii – The owner of Hawaii’s largest newspaper bought two daily publications on Hawaii’s Big Island and several newspapers in Washington state. Oahu Publications, which owns the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, said Wednesday it is buying West Hawaii Today and the Hawaii Tribune-Herald from Las Vegas-based Stephens Media. read the entire story here

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Kennedy Heights closure agreement approved

Written on Jul, 23, 2014 by in , , , | Leave a comment

Local 2000 members who work for PNG at Kennedy Heights have voted 135 to 47 in favour of accepting Postmedia’s latest offer for severance and other matters related to the closure of the printing plant. There was one spoiled ballot. About 74 percent of the members who cast ballots voted yes to the closure agreement that includes a severance package …

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New tentative Kennedy Heights closure deal

Written on Jul, 23, 2014 by in , , , | Leave a comment

Following discussions this week between Unifor National President Jerry Dias and Postmedia President Paul Godfrey, a new tentative closure agreement has been reached concerning the Kennedy Heights printing plant. An additional $1.5 million has been negotiated to bring the total severance package to $17.5 million. The Kennedy Heights bargaining committee has also met to adjust the distribution of the severance …

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Globe and Mail unionized workers approve new contract

Written on Jul, 23, 2014 by in | Leave a comment

Unionized workers at The Globe and Mail voted Thursday to approve a new contract. About 84 per cent of those voting backed the deal.   Read full story here

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CWA Canada condemns outrageous sentence against Egyptian-Canadian journalist

Written on Jun, 26, 2014 by in | Leave a comment

OTTAWA (June 23, 2014) – CWA Canada, the country’s only all-media union, is outraged at the sentences handed down against three journalists in Egypt today and demands their immediate release. Mohamed Fahmy, an Egyptian-Canadian serving as Al-Jazeera’s Cairo bureau chief, and two of his colleagues were each sentenced to seven years in prison on trumped-up, terrorism-related charges. CWA Canada joins …

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Written on Jun, 19, 2014 by in | Leave a comment
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Hassan Yussuff elected new head of Canadian Labour Congress

Written on May, 14, 2014 by in | Leave a comment

Source:  cbc.ca The Canadian Labour Congress elected a new president for the first time in 15 years at its convention in Montreal on Thursday. Hassan Yussuff defeated incumbent Ken Georgetti by 40 votes — 2,318 compared with 2,278 for Georgetti. There were 29 spoiled ballots in the hotly contested election. Georgetti, who was born in Trail, B.C., was first elected in 1999 and went on to become …

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Associated Press polices story length

Written on May, 14, 2014 by in | Leave a comment

Source: washingtonpost.com Citing a “sea of bloated mid-level copy,” Associated Press Managing Editor for U.S. News Brian Carovillano last week instructed fellow editors at the wire service to limit most “daily, bylined digest stories” to a length of between 300 and 500 words. Top stories from each state, Carovillano directed, should hit the 500 to 700-word range, and the “top global …

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