Category : Bargaining

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

Source: cheknews.ca News clip video here 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.  

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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.

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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.

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Written on Oct, 10, 2012 by in , , | Leave a comment

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 …

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Written on Dec, 10, 2011 by in , , | Leave a comment

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 …

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