COVID-19 Media Impact Map for Canada: Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press unionized employees accepted temporary wage cuts on April 6, 2020 to avoid potential layoffs. Salaries of higher salary Tier 1 employees saw wages cut by 20 per cent and Tier 2 employees saw a 12 per cent reduction or minimum wage (whichever was higher). The same cuts apply to non-unionized employees. 

Wages were fully restored for all union employees in June 2020.

This post is part of the COVID-19 Media Impact Map for Canada, a joint initiative of J-Source, the Local News Research Project at Ryerson University and the Canadian Association of Journalists. The map will be regularly updated. If you have any additional information about known changes or have knowledge of a new impact, please contact us at info@j-source.ca or fill in details using the form COVID-19: Impacts on media in Canada.