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14 Oct

Canadian Freelance Union bylaws approved by members

The Canadian Freelance Union (CFU) is now fully legal, its president has announced. The CFU’s charter members voted on a series of bylaws and they were overwhelmingly approved (94 per […]

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9 Oct

Spec and Record to outsource ad designer jobs to India and Philippines

Metroland, a division of Torstar, has informed employees of a plan to outsource about twenty ad designer jobs at The Hamilton Spectator and the Waterloo Region Record, the employees union […]

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1 Oct

Transcontinental boycott

Some reaction to the boycott by independent writers against Transcontinental is dribbling in. Slowly, cautiously, too often anonymously … geez writers are a timid breed. A news story in the […]

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30 Sep

Writers unite in boycott of Transcontinental

It’s about time that independent writers got our act together, and if it takes a boycott of Canadian Living, More, Elle Canada, Homemakers, and Vancouver Magazine to protest Transcontinental’s odious […]

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17 Jul

Freelance union gets commitment from CEP

The Canadian Freelance Union (CFU) has received a three-year commitment from the national Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP), CFU interim president Michael OReilly has announced. The CFU […]

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8 Jul

Toronto Star outsources, 27 jobs cut

The Toronto Star‘s classified advertising work is being outsourced to a Buffalo-based company and 27 unionized jobs will be cut, according to the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada […]

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6 Jul

Unionized Globe employees ratify new contract

A strike has been averted at The Globe and Mail, as employees voted in favour of accepting the newspaper company’s contract offer. Of the 337 members who voted on July […]

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29 Jun

Unionized Globe employees reject latest offer

With 292 ballots cast, unionized Globe and Mail employees voted 89 per cent against accepting the latest contract offer from the newspaper’s management. The current contract expires June 30 and […]

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26 Jun

Globe and Mail contract talks break down

With the current employee contract set to expire early next week, contract talks between the newspaper’s management and the union representing staffers have broken down, the Canadian Press reports. The […]

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19 Jun

Layoffs and wage freezes hit L’Acadie Nouvelle

Six staffers at New Brunswick’s only French-language daily newspaper, L’Acadie Nouvelle, have been let go. According to a CBC report the newspaper announced that the employees laid off include two […]

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