While workers strike, Chronicle Herald starts hiring
By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor
The Chronicle Herald is hiring while its newsroom staff pickets outside.
A job ad for multiple team editors and a content writer based in Sydney, N.S., was posted on the Chronicle Herald website. The team editor positions were also posted on the job board JeffGaulin.com on Feb. 16—the deadline for applications is Feb. 23.
“The Chronicle Herald is currently seeking detail-oriented Team Editors to ensure top quality content and presentation every day in all of our products,” said the ad.
I don’t see the word “reporting” once in this list of duties. pic.twitter.com/TKyJ4uWyqY
— H.G. Watson (@HG_Watson) February 17, 2016
Chronicle Herald journalists have been on strike since Jan. 23. The Halifax Typographical Union, which represents newsroom staff, told J-Source that management at the Chronicle Herald wants to change the language in the collective agreement, lower wages and increase hours.
Mark Lever, Halifax Herald Ltd. CEO and president, has been mostly silent on the matter, save some editorials published in his own newspaper.
H.G. Watson can be reached at hgwatson@j-source.ca or on Twitter.
H.G. Watson was J-Source's managing editor from 2015 to 2018. She is a journalist based in Toronto. You can learn more about her at hgwatson.com.