CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: 2 interim national CMG positions

As a result of resignations, two positions are currently available:

March 08, 2010      

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CMG and CWA/SCA Canada offering scholarships for 2010-2011

Here is a small collection of scholarship opportunities for Guild members and their children:

March 02, 2010      

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Announcing the 2010-2011 Ron Pambrun Scholarship

Applications are now being accepted for the 2010-2011 Ron Pambrun Scholarship.

March 02, 2010      

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CMG is looking for a part-time Administrative Coordinator

The Canadian Media Guild is seeking a bilingual person with clerical/administrative experience, can-do attitude and energetic personality for the national office in Toronto.

February 23, 2010      

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Tax time is coming: check your tax slips for CMG dues

As you're getting ready to do your tax return for 2009, remember that union dues are deductible from your taxable income.

February 23, 2010      

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CW Television: Shaw enters the picture

Calgary-based Shaw Communications and Canwest Global Communications have announced a deal which would see Shaw take control of Global TV as well as Canwest's other broadcast assets, including the specialty channels of CW Television Inc

February 12, 2010      

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APTN hiring additional workers to cover Winter Olympics

The APTN branch of the Canadian Media Guild is concerned by the company's engagement of a number of temporary employees to work on the upcoming Winter Olympics in Vancouver/Whistler.

February 09, 2010      

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Have you been roughed up while covering the Olympic torch relay?

The Canadian Media Guild is looking into recent reports that security officers attached to the Vancouver Games are being overly aggressive with media employees during the Olympic torch relay.

December 22, 2009      

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Salary progression for short-term temporary employees

Beginning December 17th, 2009, and continuing over the next few months, some CMG short-term temporary employees may notice an adjustment to their hourly rate of pay, as well as retroactive pay, on their Notification of Deposit slips.

December 18, 2009      

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Changes in CBC's Playlist Management department

Nine employees in the Playlist Management department in Toronto - seven regular staff and two temporary - were advised on December 15 that their applications for newly created jobs in the department were not successful.

December 17, 2009      

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Judge says no - for now - to Goldman Sachs

An Ontario Superior Court judge has ruled against Goldman Sach's most recent legal manoeuvre designed to keep the CW specialty channels separate from the rest of Canwest's assets during the bankruptcy protection process now under way.

December 17, 2009      

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Canadian Media Guild enters dispute over CW Television

The Canadian Media Guild, which represents operations employees at CW Television, has gone to court to represent its members in the dispute between Canwest and investment bank Goldman Sachs.

December 04, 2009      

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CMG dues referendum passes

As a result, the dues cap for the calendar year 2010 will move to $1600, and increase by $100 per year thereafter for ten years.

November 23, 2009      

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Reminder: Union offering $500 for training to members affected by layoffs

If you have lost your job or taken a package because of downsizing in 2009, you are eligible for $500 from the Canadian Media Guild’s Canadian parent union, CWA Canada, toward any training or education course.

October 22, 2009      

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Tell Ottawa not to cut off small-town Canada’s free TV service

Join the campaign to get the CRTC and broadcasters to change their plans to cut off free local TV signals for 11 million Canadians in smaller cities and rural areas.

October 20, 2009      

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Freelancers and Robertson v. Thomson - you may be eligible for compensation

The settlement allows for compensation for certain freelancers whose work was re-published in electronic format after it was published in print.

October 05, 2009      

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Are you concerned about how you were reassigned?

If you have concerns about how you were reassigned at CBC, please get in touch with a member of your local Guild executive or the national office (info@cmg.ca) at 416-591-5333 or 1-800-465-4149

September 09, 2009      

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84% say it’s unfair to lose free TV signals in smaller cities

An overwhelming majority – 84% – of residents in Kamloops, one of the Canadian cities that risks losing over-the-air television after 2011, says it is unfair that they will be deprived access to free TV signals.

July 29, 2009      

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