With a representation vote held earlier this week, on Tuesday and Wednesday, Corus employees in Engineering, Master Control, and Media Processing at Corus Quay in Toronto have decided to dissolve their collective bargaining unit. A first collective agreement was ratified … Read more »

Today, Canadian Media Guild (CMG) members ratified our first collective agreement with Corus. The ratification vote was held on Tuesday, March 6 and Wednesday, March 7, 2018. Ninety-five per cent of the ballots cast were in favour of the deal. … Read more »

Today, Canadian Media Guild (CMG) members ratified our first collective agreement with Corus. The ratification vote was held on Tuesday, March 6 and Wednesday, March 7, 2018. Ninety-five per cent of the ballots cast were in favour of the deal. … Read more »

We wanted to let you know that we met with management on Tuesday and Wednesday last week. We had good discussions on smaller issues, but Corus’s bargaining committee told us that their mandate from senior management was the same. While … Read more »

When Corus announced it was buying Shaw Media for $2.65 billion in 2016, we were proud to be part of building the company into a media empire. We worked hard to help merge 45 specialty TV channels and more than a dozen … Read more »

We met with Corus management today and yesterday. We told them that we had met with most of you and the message we received was very clear:  keep bargaining and solve the wage disparity issue. Unfortunately Corus’s bargaining committee said … Read more »

First, it was great to see the big turnout at our recent membership meetings, and it was useful to share ideas and views on ways to move forward. A strong majority of votes in the bargaining survey were in favour … Read more »

We have two days of bargaining scheduled for Monday, Oct. 2 and Tuesday, Oct. 3 next week.   We will again be pushing hard on the key issues particularly:    • Fair wages (including a wage scale that recognizes everyone’s value … Read more »

We had three days of bargaining with Corus last week. All proposals have now been presented to the company and our discussions were productive. We have reached agreements on a number of issues and are getting down to tackling the … Read more »

Just a quick update to let you know that collective bargaining will be continuing the first week of August. We will be trying to resolve the last few non-monetary issues that are unresolved and tackling head on the monetary issues … Read more »