Source: cheknews.ca
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Unionized Employees at the Cowichan Leader News Pictorial are on the picket line. The employees’ job action started Monday morning and it has to with the top rate of pay. Black Press wants to eliminate it for new hires but the union says that’s a terrible plan. Kendall Hanson reports.
Source: mediaunion.ca
Members of Local 2000 at the Campbell River Courier Islander will vote Thursday night on a “final offer” presented by the employer.
The proposal is for a four-year agreement. Other details will be explained at the meeting.
The bargaining committee has made no recommendation on the offer.
Source: mediaunion.ca
A tentative agreement has been reached between the Nanaimo Daily News and CEP Local 2000. More details will be available at the ratification vote, which will be held Wednesday October 31, time and place to be announced.
Efforts by Mailroom employees at the Daily News represented by CEP Local 525G have so far failed to reach an agreement.
Members of Local 2000 working at the Nanaimo Daily News voted Wednesday in favour of a strike, if necessary, after talks with the employer broke down last week. Pressmen voted 100% in favour of strike action, while members in Composing, Sales, Pre-Press and Editorial covered under one agreement voted 85% in favour, in an effort to secure a new agreement with their employer.
CEP Local 525G, which represents the mailroom staff at the Daily News, had already taken a vote and the members delivered a 100% strike mandate to their committee.
The full bargaining committee for PNG contract talks met December 5th in the union office to review the state of negotiations.
President Mike Bocking reported on the many external factors affecting the talks – uncertainty in the economy, the industry and with the company.
Committee members reported that the recent sale of all of Postmedia’s B.C. newspapers, except PNG, and the recent termination of the most senior Postmedia executives charged with its “digital” strategy, has raised many questions among the membership about the direction of the company or the possibility of its imminent sale.
Committee members also reported some members expressing frustration over the slow pace of talks.
This entry was posted on Friday, December 9th, 2011 at 12:33 pm and is filed under Local News.