The CMG elections 2019  have ended, and here are the results of the votes held December 5-9: National Executive Committee (NEC) President: Carmel Smyth: 658 (60.6%) Kamala Rao: 428 (39.4%) Vice-President: Brent Cousland: 538 (53.0%) Andrea Sellinger: 478 (47.0%) Director, … Read more »

CBC/Radio-Canada news management (English services) put out a note yesterday informing our members that “a number of CBC News staff were given notice of redundancy”. That is difficult to hear and we all feel it. As per our collective agreement, … Read more »

Currently, there is an election underway within our wider international union and we can participate as Canadian Media Guild (CMG) members. Most CMG members are eligible to vote in the election of the next president of the NewsGuild-CWA. Individual paper … Read more »

Dear fellow CMG members, I’d like to update you on some important items related to our collective bargaining round earlier this year.  New Job Descriptions CBC/Radio-Canada has provided the Canadian Media Guild (CMG) with the seven job descriptions that were … Read more »

This week, at the Quebec National Assembly, the Commission de la culture et des communications is looking at the future of the media, a key issue for the vitality of democracy. The commission seeks the opinion of various media companies … Read more »

The Canadian Media Guild is endorsing the We Choose CBC campaign, sponsored by the watchdog group FRIENDS of Canadian Broadcasting. An overwhelming majority of Canadians support our public broadcaster and worry about the scourge of misinformation more broadly. FRIENDS’ campaign … Read more »

Congratulations to Ellen Yarr of Charlottetown, PEI who has been selected as the winner of the Ron Pambrun Scholarship Award for 2019-2020. Ellen will be attending Dalhousie University this coming September.   “Thank you so much for your generosity in providing … Read more »

We are proud to announce that the members of the new CMG CBC/Radio-Canada Branch Editorial Board have been selected. They are: Kelly Crowe (Toronto) Laura Glowacki (Winnipeg) Nadia Jannif (Vancouver) Mary Lynk (Halifax) Jacques Poitras (Fredericton) Belle Puri (Vancouver) and … Read more »

Canadian Media Guild (CMG) members have voted at 70% in favour of ratifying a new collective agreement between our union and CKOF. The new agreement between CMG and CKOF (in French) is effective June 1, 2019 and runs until August … Read more »

The Canadian Media Guild’s (CMG) bargaining committee has reached a tentative agreement with CKOF for the renewal of the collective agreement which expired on May 31, 2019. The details of the tentative agreement were shared at a general membership meeting … Read more »