[IRCA] CBC Strike-The Real Story

["Karl J. Zuk" <karlzuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

For the other side of the story, please see www.cmg.ca the site of the 
locked-out employee's union. The CBC arrogantly locked out the thousands of 
members of the Canadian Media Guild in a heavy-handed attempt to force them 
to agree to the CBC's contract demands. The biggest issue is the CBC's 
desire to slowly move to a temporary per-diem employee base. You can't raise 
a family with security with a temporary job that can be ended without 
protection. This is penny wise and pound foolish. You can't retain good 
employees in temporary jobs. They get real jobs and leave. You are 
constantly looking for more temps and meet a lot of people in interviews 
because your employee churn is high and constant. The CMG members have been 
out of work for months, the Canadian public has had no local content in 
their programming and news, and the Canadian public gets to pay for this 
with their tax dollars. The CBC has even removed the biographies and 
pictures of their personalities from their web sites or closed the local 
sites entirely. This is not fun. This is nasty and rough. Why does the CBC 
insist on a involuntary lock-out when negotiations have been going on for 16 
months? A federal arbitration group is now working with the two groups in 
Ottawa. What a mess. I admire and support the CMG membership for holding on 
tight during this travesty.

Karl Zuk N2KZ


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