TVOntario employees
extend collective
agreement by 1 year
Canadian
Media Guild | CWA Canada
Local 30213
The pay packet for Canadian Media
Guild members who work at TVOntario will be sweetened
on May 4 with a pay increase of 2.5 per cent retroactive
to last October.
Members of the bargaining unit on Friday voted 96
per cent in favour of ratifying a one-year extension
of their collective agreement. It will now expire at
the end of October this year. In addition to the pay
increase, there were also some improvements to benefit
plans.
The CMG branch includes 115 producers, reporters,
hosts and other production personnel working in English
(TVO) and French (TFO).
Negotiations on the next collective agreement have
already begun and will continue. This fall, a separate
bargaining team will be created to start negotiations
with TFO management.
The Guild was certified as
a bargaining agent at TVO, Ontario’s provincial
public television network, in 1999.
TVOntario was established in 1970 to provide commercial-free
programming and interactive media resources that educate,
inform and entertain. In 1987, TVOntario established
tfo, a French-language network, to join TVO, the existing
English-language network.
(This is an edited version of a story
that first appeared on the Canadian
Media Guild website.)