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Three Times Colonist reporters finalists for Jack Webster Awards

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Source: timescolonist.com

Three Times Colonist reporters are finalists for two Jack Webster Awards, which recognize excellence in B.C. journalism.

Katie DeRosa is nominated in the feature/enterprise reporting category for a story about a man living in a shed. The story highlighted the revolving door of the criminal justice system.

Louise Dickson and Lindsay Kines are vying for the legal journalism award for stories on a sheriffs shortage that led judges to dismiss charges against a pair of accused drug dealers.

The winners will be announced at the 31st annual Jack Webster Awards dinner on Oct. 12 in Vancouver.

“These nominations provide more evidence of the high quality of journalism provided by the Times Colonist,” Dave Obee, the newspaper’s editor-in-chief, said Wednesday. “Our reporters are engaged with the community, and that is reflected in our pages every day.”

CBC’s Gloria Macarenko, host of B.C. Almanac and Stephen Quinn, host of On The Coast, will emcee the event. Vancouver Sun reporter Kim Bolan will receive the 2017 Bruce Hutchison Lifetime Achievement Award.

The Jack Webster Foundation was established in 1986 in honour of legendary B.C. reporter Jack Webster.

Guild Ratifies New Four Year Collective Agreement

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Dear Members:  The Guild has ratified the new four year collective agreement after meetings were held at 12 p.m. and 5 p.m. today.
Unifor, which represents our Compositors and Pressmen, and CWA-SCA  Mailers also ratified the new contract
last week.
Thank you for the great turnout by our members.

Regards,
Deb England
Bill Cleverley
Grant Wittkamp
Deborah Service-Brewster
Chris Carolan

NEGOTIATION UPDATE

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Talks between the Company and the Victoria Joint Council of Newspapers have broken off, as the Joint Councils latest offer was rejected by the company.  Severance pay, health benefits and wages remain outstanding.
No further meetings are scheduled.
Victoria Joint Council of Newspaper Unions.

Members ratify new contract at Times Colonist

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Here are the voting results from the  Victoria Joint Council of Newspaper Unions:

TNG-CWA Guild              96% in favour of tentative agreement.
TNG-CWA Mailers          92% in favour of tentative agreement.
CEP Compositors             86% in favour of tentative agreement.
CEP Pressmen                   73% in favour of tentative agreement.

Joint Council and Company Reach 4-Year Tentative Agreement

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A Tentative Agreement has been reached between the Victoria Joint Council of Newspaper Unions and the Times Colonist.

The Joint Council and Company agreed on a four year contract which will expire on January 2, 2015.

There were no concessions.

Term:
2011       0%
2012       0%
December 1, 2012 $250.00 signing bonus
January 2 2013      1%
January 2, 2014     1.5%
All Unions within the Joint Council will hold ratification vote meetings this week.

The Guild will hold their ratification vote meetings this Thursday, October 11 at 12:00 p.m. and 5:15 p.m. at the Guild Office.

The Tentative Agreement will be posted on Guild Bulletin boards tomorrow morning.

Enjoy your weekend.
Victoria Joint Council of Newspaper Unions.

NEGOTIATION UPDATE

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NEGOTIATIONS WITH GLACIER MEDIA COMMENCE JUNE 29


Victoria Joint Council of Newspaper Unions

Negotiations between the Victoria Times Colonist and the Victoria Joint Council of Newspaper Unions will commence on Friday, June 29, 2012.  The CEP (Compositors, Platemakers and Pressmen) will be the first of the Unions to meet the company to discuss their “peculiar” issues.

Further meetings will be scheduled at a later date. The Joint Council will update you once the dates are confirmed

 

Victoria Joint Council of Newspaper Unions.

CWA/SCA Canada Local 30223 (VVING)                                                                  203-2610 Douglas St.

CWA/SCA Canada Local 30403 (Mailers)                                                                Victoria, B.C. V8T 4M1

CEP Local 2000                                                                                                              Phone: 250-388-7328

Fax: 250-384-6733  E-mail: vving@vving.ca

 

 

CBC Radio interviews of Times Colonist sale

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Source: cbc.ca/ontheisland/    iTunes Podcast @ CBC

Hawking papers. The Victoria Times Colonist and many other island papers have been sold.
We’ll hear about their new owner, Glacier Media.

 

CBC Radio interview with Andrew MacLeod of The Tyee

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CBC Radio interview with Chris Carolan, President of the Victoria-Vancouver Island Newspaper Guild

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No Flash? Listen to audio Clip here  Andrew MacLeod interview  Chris Carolan interview

Let’s hope sale of Victoria Times Colonist means better days ahead for local jobs, journalism

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NEWS RELEASE – CWA|SCA CANADA

 

October 19, 2011 / OTTAWA — CWA|SCA Canada, the union that represents workers at the Victoria Times Colonist, is cautiously optimistic about the sale of the paper to Glacier Media.

For years, Postmedia has been cutting jobs and sacrificing quality across the chain to service a huge debt load. Glacier appears to be in much better financial shape and has recognized the importance of a quality
product.

“We are heartened by statements Glacier has made in the past about quality journalism,” said Martin O’Hanlon, Director of CWA|SCA Canada. “This is not about union versus management; it’s about doing what’s best for everyone. We believe that investing properly in the newspaper and keeping jobs in the community is good for readers, employees, democracy — and profits.”

O’Hanlon said he will be requesting a meeting with the company soon to discuss improving local news coverage and protecting jobs in Victoria from centralization or outsourcing overseas.

In its annual report in 2009, Glacier lamented the “vicious cycle” many newspapers in Canada have fallen into.

“The demise of many North American newspaper and media companies has in part been self-inflicted,” the company said in the report. “The Internet has been a factor, but the reduction of content and quality through continual cost cutting has played a significant role. It has weakened the product and the value of many North American metropolitan newspapers for readers, which has resulted in reduced effectiveness for advertisers, which has reduced revenues.”

CWA|SCA Canada takes the company at its word and hopes the sale means better days ahead.

In discussing the sale of the paper, Postmedia CEO Paul Godfrey claimed that employees hadn’t bought into the company’s “digital first philosophy.” In fact, workers simply objected to the centralization of pagination in Hamilton and ad production in the Philippines. “

We bought into Digital First, we just didn’t buy into shipping our jobs to Manila, Dominican Republic, Hamilton, Calgary, etc.,” said Chris Carolan, president of the Victoria-Vancouver Island Newspaper Guild (CWA|SCA Canada Local 30223).

CWA|SCA Canada is a progressive, democratic union that represents more than 7,000 media workers across the country at the CBC, The Canadian Press, Reuters and metro dailies such as The Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette and Halifax Chronicle Herald.

For more information or to arrange an interview, contact:

Martin O’Hanlon
Director, CWA|SCA Canada
613.820.8460
mohanlon@cwa-scacanada.ca

Chris Carolan
President, Victoria-Vancouver Island Newspaper Guild
250.388.7328
vving@vving.ca

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