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[IRCA] CBC employees accept tentative deal
- Subject: [IRCA] CBC employees accept tentative deal
- From: "Mike Brooker" <aum108@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 19:02:28 -0400
TORONTO (CP) - After seven acrimonious weeks of negotiations and feuding,
the CBC labour dispute is officially over. But the fighting may not be.
The Canadian Media Guild said Sunday that 88.4 per cent of the 3,514 members
who voted chose to accept the proposed contract.
But it will take a few days before programming is back to normal and the
union warns workers may not be all smiles when the cameras and microphones
are off.
Most of the CBC's 5,500 unionized workers are expected back at work Tuesday
but it'll take days, in some cases even weeks, to get everything back up to
speed.
"The National will be back by Tuesday or Wednesday," said Jason MacDonald,
spokesman for the CBC.
"From a radio point of view, Tuesday we'll have the morning show broadcast
nationally out of Montreal, and the drive-home show will be out of Toronto.
By Wednesday, some of the regional shows will be back and by Thursday,
everybody will be back."
Don Cherry, Ron MacLean and other familiar CBC faces already made their
return to TV on Saturday's Hockey Night in Canada and the network was to air
a CFL doubleheader on Monday.
full story: http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/MediaNews/2005/10/09/1255390-cp.html
73
Mike Brooker
Toronto, ON
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