[IRCA] CBC employees accept tentative deal

["Mike Brooker" <aum108@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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