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The Toronto Star has reached an agreement with the Southern Ontario Newsmedia Guild regarding the union's proposed alternatives to outsourcing. The Star will not be outsourcing its pagination and copy editing work, but ad building and other work in the pre-publishing division will still be contracted out.

In a memo to employees (the full text of the memo is pasted below), Star publisher John Cruickshank told employees that "this alternative to contracting out will still result in a number of layoffs in the newsroom, with details on specific numbers to be communicated as soon as possible." In November...

Montreal newspaper La Presse has reached an agreement in principle with three unions including the union that handles editorial and newsroom staff...

[Note: This post has been updated] The Toronto Star is "seriously considering contracting out segments of work" and is therefore asking employees to consider voluntary severance packages in advance of likely layoffs, Star publisher John Cruickshank told staff today in a memo. In a note to employees (the full text of this memo is pasted at the bottom of this post.), Cruickshank told staff...

The Canadian Freelance Union (CFU) is now fully legal, its president has announced. The CFU's charter members voted on a series of bylaws and they were overwhelmingly approved (94 per cent in favour). Here are some details distributed by CFU president Michael OReilly...