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Journalists need a
union
Our Toronto and Vancouver locals have represented some of
the most high profile Canadian journalists for over six decades so the CEP
understands why newsrooms work better with a union. Reporters, editors, camera
operators, producers, photographers, librarians and others need a union not
only to improve wages and benefits, but to stand up for editorial integrity and
fairness in the face of corporate interests that sometimes care more for the
bottom line than quality journalism.
Promoting quality
journalism
CEP Media has developed a journalism code of conduct that is
one of the most comprehensive in the world. We encourage all our locals, when
bargaining, to try putting the code into their collective agreements. The CEP
is involved, at the national and local level, in promoting quality journalism through
sponsoring forums, conducting research, lobbying government, providing
scholarships and speaking out. But the single most important contribution our
union makes to quality journalism is standing up for our members, working
journalists, when they need protection. |
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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 
Protecting Journalists 
