Your Bargaining committee would like to announce that CMG members at PMNA voted 84% to ratify the tentative agreement that was signed on March 14, 2018. The main gains of the 3-year agreement include: -New, higher salary scales for all classifications; … Read more »

Polls are now open for CMG members to vote on the tentative agreement reached last week between CMG and PMNA.  Voting is open from today, Wednesday, March 21 at 8 a.m. to Thursday, March 22 at 6 p.m.  Our electronic … Read more »

As of the close of the nomination period on Friday, February 16 at 5 p.m., ET we received one nomination for the role of CMG CP Branch Vice-President.  Therefore, Mike Blanchfield is acclaimed as our new Canadian Press Branch Vice-President. … Read more »

The retirement of Mary Jo Laforest from The Canadian Press has created an opening for Vice-President of the CP Branch at the Canadian Media Guild.  We are now accepting nominations for the position.  The mandate for this role ends with … Read more »

  We met with the management negotiating team a couple of times since mid-November and discussed non-monetary issues at length. The two sides agree in principle on integrating health and safety law into the collective agreement and on creating a … Read more »

We met two days this week with the PMNA management team, expecting their response to the full set of proposals we presented last week. We discussed some non-monetary issues including scheduling, but citing a “serious divide” on monetary issues, management … Read more »

This week, we presented all of our proposals for improving the collective agreement to the management side. We have proposed: -Higher salary scales for all classifications -Pay in lieu of benefits for part-time employees -100% employer-paid benefits premiums for full-time … Read more »

Our team for the upcoming negotiations with Pagemasters was confirmed at last week’s membership meeting and we need your input to prepare for the talks, which will begin at the end of October. Please complete the CMG bargaining survey at … Read more »

Preparations to negotiate our new collective agreement with Pagemasters continue! Please attend the membership meeting on Thursday, October 5, anytime between 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. The meeting will take place at the *new* CMG office, a few short blocks … Read more »

Our current agreement with PMNA expires on December 31, and two additional members of our bargaining unit are needed to form the bargaining committee to negotiate a new collective agreement with the company – The CMG President at PMNA, Anna … Read more »