Category / Labour
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Who’s afraid of an unpaid internship?
Toronto Media Mixer gets media workers talking about their rights.
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National study sheds light on journalists’ working conditions in the digital age
New study finds that digital technologies are transforming the work of Canadian journalists—and not for the better.
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Union stages walkout and byline strike over Chronicle Herald layoffs
Dressed in black, members of the Halifax Typographical Union staged a 15-minute walkout outside the Chronicle Herald building to protest recently announced layoffs.
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Toronto Star hiring 8 digital journalists at “market-based salaries”
The Toronto Star announced it will hire eight digital journalists who will be paid less than other journalists in the newsroom and is considering another round of editorial buyouts. The Star also…
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Updated: Union concerned Toronto Star management is creating a two-tiered pay system
The union sent a bulletin to Toronto Star staff saying management intends to create 17 new digital positions, which would be paid “significantly less” than similar existing positions in the newsroom.
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Is reporting on labour issues no longer a ‘sexy’ beat?
Through most of the 20th century, it was common for newsrooms to have multiple reporters assigned to the labour beat, but now only a handful exist. H.G. Watson reports.
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Mobilizing against precarity
How media workers are organizing to address issues of precarity, and what lessons the labour movement can learn.
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Three laid off at Brantford Expositor
Three staff at the Brantford Expositor have been laid off as part of the 200 company-wide job cuts at Sun Media.
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New CUP/CWA Canada partnership takes “harm reduction” approach to internships
More and more young people enter the labour market not expecting to be compensated for their labour and not viewing fair treatment as their basic right. Not only does this establish an…
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Live chat on internships: No pay, no gain?
Should interns be paid or unpaid? Join this four-member panel in a theoretical discussion: Melanie Coulson, senior editor at the Ottawa Citizen, did an unpaid internship at Chatelaine; Andrew Langille, Toronto lawyer…