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Canada’s Media Union
CEP is Canada’s largest media union with about 25,000
members who work for newspapers, television, radio, printing plants, publishers,
magazines, design firms, websites and film producers. Our 78 media locals
stretch from Vancouver Island to Newfoundland. Our media members do everything
from reporting the news, to decorating film sets, selling ads, operating
presses, photography, data entry and drawing cartoons.
Strength and
responsibility
Each CEP member gains from the strength of our union. With
numbers comes the power to bargain with giant corporations that dominate
Canada’s media. But along with our union’s strength comes responsibility. CEP
is at the forefront of promoting Canadian culture and improving the quality of
our media. We believe a thriving, diverse media is an essential element of
Canadian democracy and culture. The CEP uses its power to lobby governments, to
mount public campaigns, to bargain collectively and to speak on behalf of those
who work in Canada’s media. |
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Organizing Newswire |
Management in new media is fond of saying we can't have a union
because we need flexibility says Craig Wattie. But flexibility for
whom, asks the Internet producer at Torstar.
Before we joined the union, management had the flexibility to not pay
us on time, to pay some people less than others doing the same job, to
provide no sick days, ...
A concern about the fairness of layoffs and an informal discussion in
the station parking lot started the process leading to a May 2004 first
union contract at the New PL, owned by CHUM, says morning news anchor
Bob Smith.
The parking lot conversation in 2002 during which one co-worker said
what about a union? got Smith thinking about the benefits that a
collective ...
Attitudes can change and people suddenly see the need for a collective
agreement, even in notoriously anti-union workplaces, says a Toronto
Sun editor who experienced the phenomena.
For more than thirty years The Sun was the only non-union daily in
Toronto, says Brad Honywill. People thought it would remain that way
forever but then one day in 2002 the vast majority of ...
Working at the Langley Times has changed a lot since the community
newspaper became unionized, says Al Irwin, a reporter who was a member
of the internal organizing committee more than a decade ago.
I guess most important for me are the better wages and stability --
getting the union in here meant I could rely on this job to provide for
my ...
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CEP Media Organizing 
A Media Union 
